<story><title>The world map that reboots your brain</title><url>https://axbom.com/world-map/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dividefuel</author><text>The article seems to imply that people are primarily exposed to Mercator in school without discussing its shortcomings. However in my experience growing up in the 90s&amp;#x2F;00s, we discussed lots of different projections and their respective tradeoffs. It was drilled in pretty deep that the Mercator reflected shapes accurately, but not relative sizes. I also remember seeing Robinson projection far more than Mercator, though again we were reminded that it&amp;#x27;s not perfect either, and that any 2D projection will have its pros&amp;#x2F;cons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epgui</author><text>I went to public school in Canada (NB) in the 1990s and 2000s and we also covered the topic quite well. Not only that, but we also had ready access to spinning globes we could look at and compare to projections.</text></comment>
<story><title>The world map that reboots your brain</title><url>https://axbom.com/world-map/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dividefuel</author><text>The article seems to imply that people are primarily exposed to Mercator in school without discussing its shortcomings. However in my experience growing up in the 90s&amp;#x2F;00s, we discussed lots of different projections and their respective tradeoffs. It was drilled in pretty deep that the Mercator reflected shapes accurately, but not relative sizes. I also remember seeing Robinson projection far more than Mercator, though again we were reminded that it&amp;#x27;s not perfect either, and that any 2D projection will have its pros&amp;#x2F;cons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rob_c</author><text>Trust me, in bad public education in the UK the map is simply presented. You cover the concept of how to draw the map but if the teacher used the word &amp;quot;protection&amp;quot; it causes eyes to gloss over...&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you had a good education my lucky friend and I hope it serves you well. I think the closest I saw was historical map putting Britain at the center of a big red empire before skipping several hundred years to cover Vietnam because the syllabus said we had to.</text></comment>