[kzrdude]

I don't know why this discussion is never ending, but I'm fed up with the Mercator projection. I hope things move along. Google maps has done their part, when you zoom out you get a globe, but others need to follow even more.

[agos]

where should things "move along" towards? the mercator projector has some very important features, what would be the alternative?

[standardUser]

National Geographic maps use the Winkel tripel projection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection

[flohofwoe]

I already posted it somewhere above, but this is the world map we used in school in the 1980's, definitely much less 'radical' than Mercator:

https://i.redd.it/xcydn8owtzj61.jpg

[kzrdude]

That is or is very similar to Winkel tripel

[kzrdude]

The projection is used way more often than those features are needed, so use other alternatives like <favourite projection here> anytime you reasonably can.

[bagels]

Dymaxion.

[Tagbert]

When I was a kid in grade school we had lots of different maps using different projections on the walls and in our text books. We learned about how Mercator is good for navigation and other maps are better at showing comparative size. It makes for a good topic in geography. Have we just given up on education?