Infographics, Maps and so on

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Global access to Internet mapped based on the @Speedtest data. Brighter colors indicate faster connections.

#30DayMapChallenge day 7: green

 

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Map of the US exactly 245 years ago. The “first” Fourth of July in 1776.
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MERCATOR PROJECTION VS THE TRUE SIZE OF THE COUNTRIES
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the old map problem in foreign info documentaries, they get our map wrong, and these days not even consistent within the same video.

the below has come from a microsoft subsidiary, Earthstar Geographics SIO, as it says in bottom left of the image.

unless options are given to these content creators, they will keep using wrong map, with out being aware of story behind the map they use. for this to happen, dialogue has to start with these software companies.

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In 1973, the left-wing German historian Arno Peters unveiled an alternative to Mercator's allegedly Eurocentric projection: a world map depicting countries and continents according to their actual surface area—hence the smaller-than-expected northern continents, and Africa and South America appearing, in Jerry Brotton's words, "like long, distended tear drops." The 'equal area' projection, which was nearly identical to an earlier design by the Scottish clergyman James Gall, was a hit with the press and progressive NGOs. But critics argued that any projection of a spherical surface onto a plane surface involves distortions, and that Peters had amplified these by committing serious mathematical errors. "No map is any better or worse than any other map," Brotton says. "It's just about what agenda it pursues."

The West Wing enshrined the Peters Projection in pop culture during an episode in which the fictitious Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality lobbies the White House to make it mandatory for public schools to teach Peters's map rather than Mercator's.
 

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