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Today, the United Nations voted to adopt a new world map that reflects countries’ true relative sizes (programming.dev)
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Mercator is bad as a world map, but the reason why it's used on most online maps is that those online maps are usually used as local maps, where Mercator is a very good projection. It would be good if online maps switched projections if you zoomed out beyond a certain level.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don’t they? At least Google Maps has for a while.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe, idk, I rarely use anything not based on OpenStreetMap. 😛

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