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África only looks small compared to the distorted Northern Hemisphere, because it is exaggerated(say, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.. Canada itself... Great Britain...). And also because the Northern Hemisphere has more landmasses than the Southern.

They should just adopt the Mollweide or Bromley's rescaling of it. Or even Hammer-Aitoff. Or maybe stay out of legislating such things at all. I’m not so opposed to prohibiting Mercator for world maps in a classroom setting, other than for comparative purposes, but requiring this or that projection...

They should just adopt the Mollweide or Bromley's rescaling of it. Or even Hammer-Aitoff.

Looks great! Absolutely beautiful!

I don’t know of any others, although Snyder’s GS50 is nearly such. Over the area it's optimized for, or when pathologically extended to the whole globe? It falls apart quickly outside its region of optimality; you don’t have to expand the range literally to the whole globe to see gargantuan inflati...

Yes, because it's the simplest projection of all, and of course due to the rectangular outline fitting the page rather easily.

Of course, unless you want a map of the Moon as seen from space, for which you would use the Azimutal Ortographic, or the Vertical Perspective.

Yes, it is the only logical choice, since it preserves circles. A circle on the globe is a circle on the map. And the circles passing through the center are a special case, for since they are straight lines, they're circles of infinite diameter.

I (perhaps mis-) understood the “but formulas were far more complicated” as being the reason. Yes, that's also what I understood, but this passage is referring only to Craster's hyperbolic projection (Putnins P6), and I wanted to know whether Snyder also gave a reason for Craster rejecting his elli...

Only now can we generate that Hyperbolic really easily and quickly.