Your maps are not lying to you – Andy Woodruff – Medium
▻https://medium.com/@awoodruff/your-maps-are-not-lying-to-you-9c8c31c5991f
Your maps are not lying to you
Or, your maps are lying to you but so would any other map.
A week or two ago [edit: by now, sometime last year] a journalist must have discovered thetruesize.com, a nifty site that lets you explore and discover how sizes of countries are distorted in the most common world map, and thus was born another wave of #content in the sea of web media.
Your maps are lying to you! They are WRONG! Everything you learned is wrong! They are instruments of imperial oppressors! All because of the “monstrosity” of a map projection, the Mercator projection
#cartographie #Mensonge #manipulation #visualisation #sémiologie #projections