thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to Maps@hexbear.net · edit-21 year agoCool Chinese World Mapimagemessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up169arrow-down1imageCool Chinese World Mapthelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to Maps@hexbear.net · edit-21 year agomessage-square21linkfedilinkfile-text
Its a Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection map Looks like its actually a hao proyection map
minus-squareTraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoThis one makes much more sense, because no big landmasses are being too distorted too much, and the borders of the map are the oceans. Not to mention the center is the north pole, which makes sense as a reference point.
minus-squarepositivesoymilkworkershostel [they/them]@hexbear.netBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoHard no. At least the first one had symmetry with north and south, north in the middle, south in the left, Australia in the right. Why???
minus-squareAstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoJust turn it sideways like OP’s map:
This one makes much more sense, because no big landmasses are being too distorted too much, and the borders of the map are the oceans. Not to mention the center is the north pole, which makes sense as a reference point.
Hard no. At least the first one had symmetry with north and south, north in the middle, south in the left, Australia in the right. Why???
Just turn it sideways like OP’s map: