xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination
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‘The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,’ he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3207/
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I don’t think I have ever needed the ExplainXKCD more. I hope it’s a good one.
Edit: Darn, it doesn’t look any worse than Mercators to me.
Edit2: ExplainXKCD works while I sleep. Looks like @darkcloud@lemmy.world figured it out below as well.
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Is this even a bad map projection? If you’re working with a compass this sounds pretty useful
Yeah, afaik, there’s need for accounting for magnetic North difference from North when navigating even on foot, so it’s stated on the map with small enough scale
Scandinavia, Novaya Zemlya, and Taymyr Peninsula went all kinds of askew.
