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Director Data & Analytics @ Kaiser X Labs | Data Visualization, Data Storytelling, Data Science | Passionate about clear & impactful Visualizations

Map projections shape the way we see the world A map projection renders a 3D spheroid of Earth 🌎 to a 2D surface. 🗺️ Because you can't display 3D surfaces perfectly in 2 dimensions, distortions always occur. The Mercator projection too quickly gets a bad rep. As it preserves angles this was crucial for navigating the seas back in the days of Gerardus Mercator. But since for most of us, our audience aren’t skippers, accurate areas or distances are probably more important today. Tools: #QGIS and #Figma #30DayMapChallenge Day 26 Map projections #maps

  • An infographic that compares the effect of different map projections on how we perceive areas (here: Greenland vs. Africa) and distances (Russia east-west extent vs. Africa east-west extent).

- Mercator preserves angles and shapes.
- Mollweide: area
- World Azimuthal Equidistant: distance and directions
Christoph Mischke

Human Resource Developer Modern Learning bei AOK - Die Gesundheitskasse für Niedersachsen

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I have once seen a map, where not Europe was in the center, but Australia. As the european-centered view is also only one option to see the world. In the other view Europa was absolutely marginal at the edge of the map ;-)

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