time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 12 hours agoThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square104linkfedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down117
arrow-up1339arrow-down1imageThe world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projectionlemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 12 hours agomessage-square104linkfedilink
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·5 hours agoIf you’re asking me to tell you the best way to navigate 500 years ago, I can’t help you because I’m not a historian. The point is that really has absolutely no bearing on how we should use maps today in the present.
minus-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 hours agoAnd the present doesn’t affect the past.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agofrom the perspective of an art conservationist i’m not entirely sure i agree.
If you’re asking me to tell you the best way to navigate 500 years ago, I can’t help you because I’m not a historian. The point is that really has absolutely no bearing on how we should use maps today in the present.
And the present doesn’t affect the past.
from the perspective of an art conservationist i’m not entirely sure i agree.