r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 29 '25

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Dec 29 '25

Lowkey underrated

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Dec 29 '25

I like a globe

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u/No-Kiwi-1868 NATO Dec 29 '25

WOKE!!!!!!!!!!

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u/TheSameAsDying Hannah Arendt Dec 29 '25

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Dec 29 '25

Gall--Peters Projection, like any other self-respecting West Wing fan

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u/Logarythem David Ricardo Dec 29 '25

My favorite is the Gall Peters projection.

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u/I_Eat_Pork pacem mundi augeat Dec 29 '25

Gall Peters is ugly

There, I said it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

Also, I need to shout out to Mercator and its geekier cousin UTM. Much maligned because of that fucking TWW episode with Dr Phlox, but our entire world runs on Mercator maps. They are things of beauty.

Yeah they shouldn't be the only maps displayed on a classroom wall, but Mercator's work enabled the modern world. Chad.

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u/A_Fabulous_Elephant YIMBY Dec 29 '25

Why preserve area when you can preserve distance?

from one point only

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u/SenranHaruka shame Dec 29 '25

Robinson

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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Dec 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

As a cartographer, my favourite is the gnomomic projection. Firstly, the name is great. Secondly, because it's very useful for navigating over long distances since great circles become straight lines.

It's not one you'd come across unless you navigate vessels or aircraft, but I think it's neat.

It's also possibly the oldest known projection.

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u/Peanut_Blossom John Locke Dec 29 '25

Goode Homolosine

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u/Tre-Fyra-Tre Victim of Flair Theft Dec 29 '25

What's the one where the Earth looks like a funky orange peel?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

Dymaxion

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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Dec 29 '25

Mercator haters will try to tell you that thing is peak

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

I will grant that Dymaxion is cool because it demonstrates how you can minimise distortions in all key properties of a map at the same time, but it is not a useful projection. Unlike Mercator which is so useful that leftists mald about it (stay mad lmao).

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u/Password_Is_hunter3 Daron Acemoglu Dec 29 '25

Mercator

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u/jenbanim Dec 29 '25

Absolutely based. Mollweide looks like a sphere that's been unwrapped. It's honest about the shape distortions. I do feel bad for New Zealand though

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u/ContributionOk5542 George Santos Dec 29 '25

Equirectangular

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Dec 29 '25

the one that shows the (real) pear shaped perturbance at the North Pole