Comment by einpoklum
9 hours ago
I would not use such strong rhetoric as the GP, but I believe they probably mean we should lean towards using the Gall/Peters projection, which maintains lengths and areas, but not angles.
(There are of course other projections with other interesting features; or you could take the same projection but center the world differently etc.)
Why? Why is lengths and areas more important than angles? You have to choose one, its essentially arbitrary. Personally I find it more useful to know what is parallel to what and what is at which angles from what, than some size. We have globes, so we know what the "real size" of Greenland looks like... this has always been a silly argument from the overzealous online looking for right wrongs that don't exist.
WEB MERCATOR DOES NOT PRESERVE ANGLES.
I know. But they mentioned Mercator, not Web Mercator.
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Web Mercator does not preserve angles.
We're currently forced to use a projection that is strictly worse than what it was based on, the Mercator projection, created in 1569.
Everyone on this thread needs to read this presentation entitled "Use Literally Anything But Web Mercator":
https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/events/conf...
Let's say that a bit louder shall we:
USE LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT WEB MERCATOR.