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African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size
(www.theguardian.com)
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Every single 2D projection of a 3D spheroid will be trash. All of them.
The only difference is what you're going to distort.
...I should feel more invested on that, given I'm from SA, but I don't care too much.
True, but there are projections designed to compromise multiple factors, whereas Mercator Al has a specialized use case, so it's easy to agree that it's a poor layman/general projection