No, because Africa is larger than Asia, and this shows Asia as massive.
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selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 day agoI don’t know what you mean by “other such variations”, but maybe you are looking for a map with something like the Mollweide projection? That’s a bit of distortion in shape but trying to keep areas real.
scala@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You may want to double check that, or you probably will need an imaginary map.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Africa: 30.3 million km²
Asia: 44 million km²
Nowhere near the difference Mercator projection maps make it out to be, but Asia definitely is larger.
scala@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Russia*
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What do they call the projections that have slices taken out of them at the oceans?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The projection is the mathematical transformation from the curved surface of the Earth to a mathematical surface. You can have types of projections based on the mathematical surface (conical, cylindrical…), or based on the features they want to rescue from this transformation (conformal, equal-area…), but, sorry, I’ve never heard of a classification based on these “slices”. Moreover, now that I think of it, even those projections we are familiar with have to be cut somewhere.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Another post in this thread had an example of one, called Goode’s Homolosine Equal-area Projection.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No, I know what you mean but that looks like some azimuthal projections put together in some conventional way. Maybe the concept you are looking for is a “composite” projection.