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Replace mercator projection #1526

Open nichtich opened 6 years ago

nichtich commented 6 years ago

The mercator projection is euro-centric and blows up the north (Alaska, Greenland...). Many more suitable projections exist. While the disadvantage of Mercator is obvious in theory, replacing in in practice seems to be hard.

literarymachine commented 6 years ago

We have indeed had this discussion several times already. As you say, getting it "right" is hard in practice - thanks for the link!

trugwaldsaenger commented 6 years ago

Thanks for getting in touch @nichtich! I`m a Buckminster Fuller Fanboy, so I would go for the Dymaxion projection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map#/media/File:Dymaxion_2003_animation_small1.gif

Any more advice for us, which is easier to handle?