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by LegionMammal978 428 days ago
If we're playing the map-projection-advocacy game, I'd say the Mollweide projection is underrated among equal-area maps [0]. (For local maps, use whatever you want, appropriately centered.) Sure, it distorts shapes away from the central meridian, but locally it only adds a simple horizontal skew. I'm not a big fan of how many equal-area 'compromise' projections lie about how long the lines of latitude are.

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

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You probably don't live in New Zealand? (Yes I know it's there. Barely.)