Looks better but is basically unusable for navigation in any sense. Mercator at least preserves direction but not size. Robinson preserves nothing. It combines all the drawbacks without adding any advantages except “looks nice”. Which is actually the philosophy of the projection:
I visualized the best-looking shapes and sizes. I worked with the variables until it got to the point where, if I changed one of them, it didn’t get any better. Then I figured out the mathematical formula to produce that effect.
Who uses a full sized world map for navigation? This isn’t the Golden Age of Piracy. You’d have local maps that don’t have any distortion since they’re at a much narrower field of view.
This is why i like robinson projection, same thing as mercator except squished by the cosine of latitude to account for area distortion
Looks better but is basically unusable for navigation in any sense. Mercator at least preserves direction but not size. Robinson preserves nothing. It combines all the drawbacks without adding any advantages except “looks nice”. Which is actually the philosophy of the projection:
I can respect that. 10/10 no notes.
I’ll have to avoid that map the next time I’m sailing across the Pacific, then.
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Who uses a full sized world map for navigation? This isn’t the Golden Age of Piracy. You’d have local maps that don’t have any distortion since they’re at a much narrower field of view.
Something like we used in the army like this:
Every day? But not at the scale where I need to view the whole globe
So what’s your favourite Beatles song then?
https://xkcd.com/977/
I don’t pay much attention to xkcd, yet it seems like I’ve seen every xkcd(?)
I’d say this is one of my favorites, and that would be correct, but that’s like saying sweet potato pie is my favorite pie.
I don’t like how those are all equator based. Why doesn’t anyone center the map on Antarctica? 😭
Why does this view trigger my fear of heights?
Now that’s a useful map!
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I’d not heard of that one, thats super cool!