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Keith Wilson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Trumpland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpland</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MercatorProjection" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nx2kxyxako6sobj4g4pdkl6s/post/3lkbrlwdbr22q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nx2kxyxako6sobj4g4pdkl6s/post/3lkbrlwdbr22q</a> <a href="https://media.tenor.com/FR-RtsWXFlQAAAAC/world-world-size.gif?hh=498&ww=498" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a black and white map of the w...</a>

Of Bookish ThingsThis <a href="https://c.im/tags/Map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Map</a> Helps <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascists</a>There is a difference between maps created to show the distortions inherent in map projections and those created intentionally to mislead. But for readers, it’s not so clear when we lack the tools to talk about them meaningfully. The distortions of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> don’t just exist in some theoretical vacuum—they’re a reminder of how easily visualizations can be weaponized to amplify or bury ideas. To counteract this, we need to get better at asking specific questions: Why this projection? Why these data choices? What’s being highlighted or hidden? By learning to spot and articulate these design decisions, we can go beyond cheering for “amazing” maps and start seeing when they’re actively doing harm. Until we learn to name the ways maps shape narratives and teach others to do the same, we’ll stay stuck in a cycle of celebrating the familiar while missing the bigger picture.*** In the modern world “close” has little to do with area and more to do with the transportation networks we’re embedded in via road, rail, sea lanes and air routes. ***If you ask a data visualization expert, they’ll often tell you that you, too, do not need to learn how to read a network visualization or a flow diagram or any other kind of complex data visualization. Which is unfortunate because networks better explain the modern world than most amazing maps<a href="https://c.im/tags/GoogleMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoogleMaps</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maps</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CulturalBiases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalBiases</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://nightingaledvs.com/this-map-helps-fascists/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nightingaledvs.com/this-map-helps-fascists/</a>

WillowIf this is the case it is hilarious<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/11/2296062/-Trump-s-Greenland-delusions-of-grandeur-are-based-on-a-deceiving-map" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/11/2296062/-Trump-s-Greenland-delusions-of-grandeur-are-based-on-a-deceiving-map</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greenland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mercatordistortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercatordistortion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mercatorprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercatorprojection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kalaalitnunaat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kalaalitnunaat</a>

Professor Charles Haas<a href="https://mstdn.social/@CNN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@CNN</a> - you should not use the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> when you discuss <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a>. This is quite misleading visually in terms of land area.

Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P NatenomI wondered what <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MapProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MapProjection</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> uses and zoomed out as far as possible. It looked like a <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> to me.It kinda was confirmed to me when I scrolled that zoomed out map up and down and the scale shown in the very bottom of the browser window changed from 10000km and being about as wide as the USA or Africa when the map is about centered vertically in the browser window to 1m (with a scale width going 4 times around the globe) at the bottom (shown) and upper ends.

The Skeptic's Book of ListsNo one ever asks "Why did Joe Mercator never have to buy another bottle of maple syrup or vodka ever again?" Who benefited most? ___________ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conspiracy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maps</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercator</a>

Javier Jimenez ShawMercator projection is not a conspiracy of northern countries. It is a conspiracy of the southern penguins! Look at the size of Antarctica. It is HUGE! (actually it is infinite)Somehow they convinced the mapmakers to remove most of it from those maps, saying that a square map is ... nicer?<a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gischat</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/mercatorprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercatorprojection</a>

ScienceActuallyGreenland is north, east, south and west of Iceland.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sciencefacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefacts</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greenland</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iceland</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/north" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#north</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/east" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#east</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/south" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#south</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/west" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#west</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mercator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercator</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mercatorprojection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercatorprojection</a>

Ruth MottramAlso <a href="https://expressional.social/@DRIndland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@DRIndland</a> : it's 2023, can we not use the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MercatorProjection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MercatorProjection</a> on maps... ? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HowToLieWithMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowToLieWithMaps</a>... <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Geography</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cartography</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>

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