Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoAfrican Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s sizewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square82linkfedilinkarrow-up1334arrow-down112cross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
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minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoWell a rectangle gives you easy direction, true north is always up. But you can map very accurate maps that are not rectangle. They just make navigation a bitch
Well a rectangle gives you easy direction, true north is always up. But you can map very accurate maps that are not rectangle. They just make navigation a bitch