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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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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Maybe you've never seen a map made for land navigation?

Can you share one or the name of the projection used? I am having an harf time searching for it

Edit: i found that for air navigation they use Lambert Conformal Conic, for marine they use Mercator and for land i found nothing which makes sense (and probably it would be Mercator anyway)