Hi everyone, the world map representation used by iNat (when you look at Obs. displayed per Map, instead of Grid or List), is the Mercator Projection. You might have noticed that Greenland is bigger than South America. And Alaska bigger than Brazil. And Antartica is … huge. This distorts very much…

web Mercator (EPSG: 3857) is the de facto standard for mapping on the web. most basemap tiles are created using web Mercator. so unless you’re going to create and host your own, it’s easier to use what’s most readily available. if you want to use alternate projections, you can get them indirectly v…

Arno Peters is an equal area projection, which gives a more honest ((less colonial)) size to Africa

https://www.oxfordcartographers.com/our-maps/peters-projection-map/

[https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_projections.png]

Hi @jdwidness Thanks for the cartoon, great add!

xkcd has another map projection we could consider :wink: [image]

i came across something this morning that made me think of this thread. apparently some folks have done the coding to be able to reproject any set of Mercator tiles onto just about any projection you or @jwidness can think of: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/raster/ . so for example, here are: St…

Can anybody identify the cartoonist?

But zooming in and panning on a computer screen is not like using a flat map. Computers can render simulations of 3-D objects. So shouldn’t the standard be a simulation of a globe? And then you can zoom in on any part and see it projected from the center of that view. Zoom in on Cleveland, see a map…

World Map Representation: is Mercator the most adequate for iNat?

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