The UN has voted 164 to 1 to stop using the Mercator projection in favor of the "Equal Earth map.
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Please update your map to reflect this ruling.
Greenland appearing bigger than Africa is an embarassment.
Russia, Canada and Scandanavia are rediculously huge and impossible to read correctly -
The Mercator projection is the most useful projection for sailing and flying.
If you want a more realistic map in term of surface use the 3D in browser version. -
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@idefix37 said in The UN has voted 164 to 1 to stop using the Mercator projection in favor of the "Equal Earth map.:
The Mercator projection is the most useful projection for sailing and flying.
Aren't the most useful and most used projection for flying conic projection?
Under Chapter 16. Article 16.5 of the ICAO Annex 4:
The projections shall be as follows:
a) between the Equator and 80° latitude: the Lambert conformal conic projection, in separate bands for each tier of charts. The standard parallels for each 4° band shall be 40′ south of the northern parallel and 40′ north of the southern parallel;
b) between 80° and 90° latitude: the Polar stereographic projection with scale matching that of the Lambert conformal conic projection at latitude 80°, except that in the northern hemisphere the Lambert conformal conic projection may be used between 80° and 84° latitude and the Polar stereographic projection between 84° and 90° with the scales matching at 84° North.
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@YacineBoussoufa
OK so at least for sailing
