el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦<p>🇸🇮Slovenian commerce logic</p><p>Which price is right?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slovenia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a></p>
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Peter Hanecak<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> projection is not a conspiracy of northern countries. It is a conspiracy of the southern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/penguins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>penguins</span></a>. Look at the size of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antarctica</span></a>. It is HUGE!"</p><p>~ Javier Jimenez Shaw, at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS4GE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS4GE2025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS4G" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS4G</span></a></p>
Mina<p>We all know, how crappy the common <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> projection for world <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> represents areas, inflating them with distance from the equator.</p><p>What many people don't know, is why this projection is still so popular: </p><p>The shortest path between two points on the globe, is a straight line on the map.</p><p>I reckon, this is useful.</p><p>In all other projections, the shortest paths are curves. </p><p>In <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a>, we say, the Mercator projection preserves angles, not areas.</p>
HuisOpDeGaard 🇾🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦<p>IMMAPPANCY</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@infobeautiful" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>infobeautiful</span></a></span> Not only is the blogpost 15 years old…the author of the post did not do a very good job in referencing the ‘Africa-image’ to it’s original author; <a href="http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>He ‘coined’ the term “ “immappancy”, meaning in-<br>sufficient geographical knowledge.” adressing “the highly distorted nature of the predominantly used mapping projections (such as Mercator).”</p><p>The full map and adjoining info is avalable as a download (CC).<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kaikrause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kaikrause</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immappancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immappancy</span></a></p>
Semanario Universidad<p>Gemelo digital oceánico una tecnología para proteger los mares al servicio de Costa Rica</p><p>En la Conferencia de la ONU sobre los Océanos hay un espacio destinado a la interacción con innovadoras tecnologías y está disponible al público toda la información de las condiciones marítimas en la zona protegida de la Isla del Coco.<br>La entrada Gemelo digital oceán [...]</p><p><a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/CONFERENCIADELOSOC%C3%89ANOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CONFERENCIADELOSOCÉANOS</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/GemeloDigitalOce%C3%A1nico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GemeloDigitalOceánico</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/IslaDelCoco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IslaDelCoco</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/Niza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Niza</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/Oc%C3%A9anos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Océanos</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/Pa%C3%ADs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>País</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/UNOC3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNOC3</span></a> <a href="https://bots.fedi.cr/tags/%C3%9AltimaHora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ÚltimaHora</span></a></p><p><a href="https://semanariouniversidad.com/pais/gemelo-digital-oceanico-una-tecnologia-para-proteger-los-mares-al-servicio-de-costa-rica/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">semanariouniversidad.com/pais/</span><span class="invisible">gemelo-digital-oceanico-una-tecnologia-para-proteger-los-mares-al-servicio-de-costa-rica/</span></a></p>
Luís de Sousa<p>Awesome work by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> portraying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ocean</span></a> currents.</p><p>Imagine this with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> 😆. What you see in this video is called the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PerspectiveMapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PerspectiveMapProjection</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopMercator</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-s6O8qyvE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=R5-s6O8qyvE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
BKG<p>Heute ist <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/TagderVermessung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TagderVermessung</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> 1512 wurde der Geo- und Kartograph Gerhard <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> geboren.</p><p>Er entwickelte eine Kartendarstellung, die besonders winkeltreu ist und deshalb bis heute verwendet wird: die Mercator-Projektion 🗺️</p><p><a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/Vermessung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vermessung</span></a> <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/Kartographie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kartographie</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]<br>--<br><a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">visualcapitalist.com/mercator-</span><span class="invisible">map-true-size-of-countries/</span></a> <-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://equal-earth.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">equal-earth.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]<br>--<br>[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>size</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landarea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mapprojection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JustSayNoToGallPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustSayNoToGallPeters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalarea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equalarea</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/nautical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nautical</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/navigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>navigation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spheroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spheroid</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/globe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globe</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>area</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/shape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shape</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/direction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>direction</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/equalearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equalearth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhomb</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rhomblines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhomblines</span></a></p>
Luís de Sousa<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@koriander" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>koriander</span></a></span> Something's wrong with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> in that picture. The islands should be way bigger than with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mollweide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mollweide</span></a></p>
Amᵃᵖanda<p>begone <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercator</span></a> and your colonialismus!</p>
Luís de Sousa<p>Very disappointed to see Prof. Michael Clarke involved in this. A video published by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SkyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SkyNews</span></a> days ago portrays distances on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> projection, misinforming the public on the real range of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> 's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WMDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WMDs</span></a>.</p><p>This is a very obvious misuse of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a>, that cannot possibly be a mistake. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopMercator</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZXivH_XcW8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=OZXivH_XcW</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
Philippe Smet<p>Een beetje <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a>-chauvinisme kan geen kwaad, maar het blijft toch raar in zo'n uitgezoomde versie. Op deze <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vrtnws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vrtnws</span></a>-kaart lijkt Groenland zelfs ruim groter dan Zuid-Amerika, terwijl Groenland 'in het echt' 8x kleiner is. Ook Spitsbergen (O tov Groenland) is 'maar' 2x België.</p>
Juho Mäntysalo<p>Do all gps-apps on Android use only mercator? Planning a trip in North - South direction and Mercator makes it hard to eyeball distances.</p><p>Would be handy if I could swap projections.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/googlemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlemaps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organicmaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organicmaps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercator</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gps</span></a></p>
Luís de Sousa<p>Detailed analysis of the dramatic events in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> the past few days. Some observers are calling this a watershed moment, turning the tide in favour of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>. We shall see.</p><p>Note however that @HMexperience@YouTube.com and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@noelreports" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>noelreports</span></a></span> seem to be measuring distances on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> projection. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopMercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopMercator</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eHAtfFgTQg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=-eHAtfFgTQ</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>
Petra Schwer<p>Love this: <br><a href="https://xkcd.com/2911" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/2911</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(Math-friends: have a look here: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator-Projektion" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator</span><span class="invisible">-Projektion</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/xkcd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xkcd</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mercator</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
ScienceActually<p>Greenland is north, east, south and west of Iceland.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sciencefacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefacts</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenland</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iceland</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/north" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>north</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/east" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>east</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/south" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>south</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/west" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>west</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mercatorprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercatorprojection</span></a></p>
BKG<p>Heute ist <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/TagderVermessung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TagderVermessung</span></a>. </p><p>👨 <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> 1512 wurde Gerhard <a href="https://social.bund.de/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercator</span></a> in Rupelmonde in Flandern geboren. </p><p>🗺️ Er entwickelte eine Kartendarstellung, die winkeltreu ist und deshalb bis heute verwendet wird: Die Mercator-Projektion.</p>
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