African Union has proposed a resolution to UN to replace the Mercator map with Equal Earth map, which represents countries' sizes more accurately.
The resolution passed with 164 in favor, 1 against, 6 abstained.
One of the countries that abstained is Ukraine, as the proposed map had Crimea marked as neutral territory.
9 Comments
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net · 30 pts · 21h
IMO marking Crimea as neutral makes zero sense in what otherwise would be a great map suggestion, and it really pisses me off.
Either show the actual control status on the ground: which would mean 80% of Ukraine marked as Ukrainian, 20% of Ukraine as Russian.
Or show 100% of it all as Ukrainian, as it's agreed upon internationally.
Showing entire Ukraine as Ukrainian except for "neutral" Crimea doesn't match reality neither legally nor militarily.
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 18h
Such a map has a lifetime of barely 24h.
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 7h
I don't know about that. The frontline has barely moved in the last 2-3 years or so.
Especially if we zoom out and look at the world map, small towns changing hands wouldn't be visible on a map of that scale
esc@piefed.social · 15 pts · 19h
So why other countries didn't get the same treatment?
UN doing useless shit as usual, like there are a number of institutions that are good, but as an entity it's worthless.
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org · -11 pts · 18h
UN should be fucking dismantled after financing hamas
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 12h
Hahahaha holy crap, that's one hell of a statement. Would you care to substantiate it any?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 20h
It’s a pretty terrible map.
Skew is still too high in the north and south, I get the “true size of africa” argument (yes I watched that West Wing episode — it’s fine to replace maps used for maritime navigation, but I don’t like this projection either.
I only really support globes and local projections.
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 18h
It is indeed bad and inaccurate.
I bet they only chose it because it looked similar enough to Mercator, unlike Dymaxion or other options.
People really hate change, friction, and doing something in a new way, even as small as using a different map.
So they settled for Equal Earth map as a compromise, because it's a slight incremental improvement over Mercator, rather than a fully new thing.
Rose@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 13h
A political decision through and through. Two regions of Georgia are still controlled by Russia but didn't get the same treatment.