A big who cares, mapping a 3D surface onto a 2D surface always has distortions.
WHY did the USA vote against it
Some critics of the Mercator projection suspect it has remained widely used because it enlarges and centers Europe, as well as other Western regions such as North America, perpetuating ideas of European superiority.
The UN resolution notes “with concern that this distortion contributes to minimizing the perceived sizes of Africa, Latin America and South Asia, and perpetuating an unbalanced view of the world.”
Because it makes them look smaller. Because reality.
Trump no like feel small :((
Because it would make Greenland look far smaller and uninteresting for Trump.
Does it matter what projection the UN uses? Of course the actual UN logo is a wacky projection.
Moldova, the fuck do you care about this
Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, and Georgia have actual problems to worry about.
I mean this is just UN navel gazing about the fairness of map projections. Countries that are staring down an increasingly unstable Russia probably aren’t too worried about that.
I saw two of the Baltics, and fair point, but now I’m curious about why Latvia didn’t go along with them.
Trying to suck up to the US without pissing off the rest of the world too much, presumably. Same for Georgia, Estonia and Ukraine. The one that actually surprised me is Serbia.
What gives, Serbia?
They explicitly indicated that they don’t, what are you talking about?
Fuck all those who abstained and voted against
The abstained could’ve been sick or at war that day.
Nice use of sarcasm
It’s such a tragedy that the Earth had to be a sphere. I mean, I know it was inevitable. But come on, universe. A sphere? Really? You had to have known about Gauss’s Theorema Egregium, yet you chose sphere. Now we’re all fighting over who gets to be squished or enlarged and in what directions.
Even Israel voted differently to the US, that’s way funnier than it should be
Why do we always have to vote the dumbest possible way in these things?
"UN vote on whether we should eat glass: 99% against, US stands alone as In Favor ."
“They’re shrinking Greenland, so that I’m less interested in it.” - Donald Trump, probably
IT GIVES MY HAIR A HEALTHY SHINE
Not eating glass is wOkE.
99.9% of the use cases of maps are digital anyway. Why do we not just adopt a globe as the official world map?
Too many things need flat maps and UN logos, like websites, walls, paper…
They should have an official 3D representation as well as official 2D representation, and use the 3D where it makes sense.
I understand the intention behind using equal earth projection, but personally I still find the Robinson projection more pleasant to look at. Or, of course, the wonderful Waterman Butterfly projection.
The Robinon projection makes Canada look nearly smaller than Australia.
Maybe the US has a broken voting button, they would want to click “yes”, but it ends up as “no” every time.
/s
They probably tried to mail in their vote, but it got stuck at USPS because of a botched bar code.
They, like clockwork, vote against everything. They were one of maybe 3 countries that voted no that water is a human right.
They’re just a contrarian nation.
Oh, yeah, well Donald signed a new order changing every country’s name to America.
From now on all adresses: America [house number], America, America, America.
all house numbers are 1776
That’s a very Aladeen news.
Cold America, Hot America, Desert America, Rude America, Posh America, Crowded America, Island America, etc.
The United States cast the sole vote against, dismissing the initiative as part of a “radical ideological project.”
In other words, the reasons and explanations were too difficult for the American envoy to grasp.
“radical” lost all meaning in the US
It has. I am just hoping that once cheeto man is out of office that life in the US can progress back to something more recognizable again.
You need to flush the system of all his acolytes too.
I saw the US was against it an thought it had to be smth like this. Only americans can look at a problem like “you can’t project a 3D sphere onto a 2D plane” and think “waow this is a little too political for me” (I know I’m oversimplifying but u get the gist)
Rare US-Israel disagreement
Why the us voted against? In the new map they look bigger than Canada, it should appease the baby in command.
They don’t want Trump to see how small Greenland actually is. I think he reckons it’s about half the size of the United States because he’s an idiot. Not that this map projection is at all new, or has been a secret or anything, but trump isn’t exactly the investigating type and so he probably hasn’t seen it before, but if the information is shoved in his face he might become upset.
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