Its a Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection map

Looks like its actually a hao proyection map

  • AstroStelar [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Wikipedia mentions it here, on "List of map projections". It has no page of its own.

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    There's also an alternate version in the original paper, where the Americas aren't cut in two:

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    I found it a while ago myself, this alternate version is one of my favourite map projections.

    • AstroStelar [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The creator has his own website (in Chinese): http://www.hxgmap.com/

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      This one makes much more sense, because no big landmasses are being too distorted too much, and the borders of the map are the oceans. Not to mention the center is the north pole, which makes sense as a reference point.