On: The world split into 7 equal areas of population

[JasonFruit]

I was amused that one of the first responses was to criticize the projection he chose. There's one in every crowd.

[jjoonathan → JasonFruit]

In a post about population density, it probably makes sense to choose a projection that preserves area ratios.

[kuschku → jjoonathan]

This projection looks to be either Robinson or Winkel-Tripel – both of which roughly do preserve area ratios.

Which is why all Wikis use these projections, or variations thereof, as standard base map (and it looks as if he just took at Wiki base map and colored it)

[pg_bot → JasonFruit]

Of course, the internet is fantastic for pedantic nitpicking.

While we're on the subject of map projections, I would suggest taking a look at the Authagraph projection.[0] It preserves the size and shapes of all the continents while simultaneously giving the viewer vertigo.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authagraph_projection

[jwilk → pg_bot]

The example map in the Wikipedia article is tiny.

This article has bigger ones:

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/authagraph-...

[yosito → pg_bot]

I love the authagraph projection! I'd love to see it more often.

[fdej → pg_bot]

I've never seen South America look that pointy.

[cwmma → pg_bot]

Not shape, Brazil and Greenland are both distorted

[freehunter → cwmma]

Yeah that's pretty glaring. Even when the map is centered over Brazil, it's still super wide. Is Brazil really that wide, or is this just another super-imperfect projection that wildly distorts the real shape of land?

[Gigablah → JasonFruit]

It's interesting that you characterized the response ("Maybe use another map projection?") that way.

That doesn't sound like criticism to me, it sounds like a suggestion. Maybe the person was just curious.