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| Equal Earth Projection |
The UN has passed a resolution encouraging people to use an equal area projection instead of the Mercator projection for maps of the world.
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| Mercator Projection |
Supposedly the Mercator projection is better for navigation, something about you can draw a route from one place to another as a straight line. Of course anyone plotting a ship's course is going to use a map that only shows the relevant portion of the world. Area doesn't even enter the question.
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| Eckert IV projection |
The Eckert projection is another equal area projection. If you can tell the difference between Eckert and Equal Earth you are better man than me.
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| Mercator Projection Versus True Size |
This true size is not a coherent projection.
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| Mercator Projection Versus Eckert IV |
All these maps reminds me of a scene from Strategist Kanbei where some Jesuit priests show Oda Nobunaga a map of the world which kind of blew his mind. It took the priests some absurd length of time to get from Portugal to Japan, like two years.
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| Fra Mauro Map of the World |
The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian (Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro. Note that 1450 is before Columbus sailed to the New World.
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| My Low Distortion World Map |
You'd think that after all this time I could have produced a better version of my map, but I've been busy.
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| Spilhaus Projection |
This is the one that got me started on this post. Text from above image:
MANY SEAS, ONLY ONE OCEAN
Invented in 1942 by oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, the cartographic projection of the same name allows us to see the world through the eyes of a marine organism. The 70.8% of water on Earth forms, clearly shown here, an immense continuum, a large continuous body of water, varying in temperature and salinity according to currents and the ebb and flow of the seasons.
P. S. Ocean Currents
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| Ocean Currents Spilhaus Projection |
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