Harry Stevens
@harrystevens.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The azimuthal equal-area projects the sphere onto a disk and preserves area across the projection. You can display the whole planet, but latitudes far from the center get very distorted. The clipped two-hemisphere approach avoids the distortion and fits nicely on a phone.
April 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The azimuthal equal-area projects the sphere onto a disk and preserves area across the projection. You can display the whole planet, but latitudes far from the center get very distorted. The clipped two-hemisphere approach avoids the distortion and fits nicely on a phone.
I first saw this last year in a map by @bananafish.bsky.social. Not sure if he invented it or saw it somewhere else.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
April 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I first saw this last year in a map by @bananafish.bsky.social. Not sure if he invented it or saw it somewhere else.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
A cylindrical or pseudocylindrical (in this case Patterson's Natural Earth) projection will start looking real scrunchy at around 600 pixels, but the stacked Lamberts work great down to 300 pixels — as narrow as you'll ever need.
April 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A cylindrical or pseudocylindrical (in this case Patterson's Natural Earth) projection will start looking real scrunchy at around 600 pixels, but the stacked Lamberts work great down to 300 pixels — as narrow as you'll ever need.