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True continent sizes (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Any equal area projection recentered for each continent would work.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Recentered is the thing.

I've often wished map apps would recenter the Mercator projection for wherever you are in the world. So you could zoom out on e.g. Russia and see the world map as if the 'equator' were through Russia and the 'poles' at ... somewhere in the North Atlantic and South Indian Ocean?

Bonus points if you can rotate too

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I volunteer to implement the backend for this, if someone else will do the frontend. It should be easy enough to do a spherical rotation before whatever data gets passed to the projection math.

If you want an azimuthal equidistant projection centered somewhere, this website already exists, but that doesn't help us here.