Talk:977: Map Projections - Revision history

2.98.65.8 at 18:59, 9 October 2025

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81.108.43.160 at 17:06, 9 October 2025

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74.192.155.229 at 14:04, 18 August 2025

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FaviFake: /* Projection */

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‎Projection

FaviFake at 18:40, 5 May 2025

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Esogalt: Shorten "loose references" section title, as it was making the TOC overly wide.

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Shorten "loose references" section title, as it was making the TOC overly wide.

Tsuchinoko: Map question

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Map question

172.70.90.191: /* Hemispheric Interrupted Mollweide */

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‎Hemispheric Interrupted Mollweide

172.70.90.173 at 07:30, 3 January 2024

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172.70.86.67: ...does it not? (Must check.) Anyway, just improving the suggestion's placement/markup.

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...does it not? (Must check.) Anyway, just improving the suggestion's placement/markup.

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 (something something "also you'd have to say 'someone dropped his, her, or their sunglasses' due to not everybody being a him or a her in the first place" something something good phrasing.)
 I'd also understood "you use a recently-invented set of gender-neutral pronouns" to mean "you use those pronouns /for yourself/", rather than declaring what pronouns the person in question uses for another person of unknown gender, so I'm not sure that how people refer to others is relevant at all? [[Special:Contributions/74.192.155.229|74.192.155.229]] 14:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
 I use a custom projection for everything

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	(something something "also you'd have to say 'someone dropped his, her, or their sunglasses' due to not everybody being a him or a her in the first place" something something good phrasing.)		(something something "also you'd have to say 'someone dropped his, her, or their sunglasses' due to not everybody being a him or a her in the first place" something something good phrasing.)
	I'd also understood "you use a recently-invented set of gender-neutral pronouns" to mean "you use those pronouns /for yourself/", rather than declaring what pronouns the person in question uses for another person of unknown gender, so I'm not sure that how people refer to others is relevant at all? [[Special:Contributions/74.192.155.229\|74.192.155.229]] 14:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)		I'd also understood "you use a recently-invented set of gender-neutral pronouns" to mean "you use those pronouns /for yourself/", rather than declaring what pronouns the person in question uses for another person of unknown gender, so I'm not sure that how people refer to others is relevant at all? [[Special:Contributions/74.192.155.229\|74.192.155.229]] 14:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
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	*[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=977:_Map_Projections&oldid=376406 Images on the right]		*[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=977:_Map_Projections&oldid=376406 Images on the right]
	--[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)		--[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Should someone revisit the explanation of gender-neutral pronouns? The various new ones people are coming up with are generally used to describe their own personal experience with gender, while people who are talking about an unknown person, i.e. "oh, look, someone dropped their sunglasses in the river", are probably not going to be using any sort of new pronoun because the word "they" is right there. For that matter, whoever's saying that is probably not using the word "they" to avoid hypothetically offending whoever dropped sunglasses in the river, but saying it because "someone dropped his or her sunglasses in the river" is sort of awkward to say and just saying "his sunglasses" or "her sunglasses" is a tad odd when the person's gender isn't known.
		+	(something something "also you'd have to say 'someone dropped his, her, or their sunglasses' due to not everybody being a him or a her in the first place" something something good phrasing.)
		+	I'd also understood "you use a recently-invented set of gender-neutral pronouns" to mean "you use those pronouns /for yourself/", rather than declaring what pronouns the person in question uses for another person of unknown gender, so I'm not sure that how people refer to others is relevant at all? [[Special:Contributions/74.192.155.229\|74.192.155.229]] 14:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

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	It should maybe be explained that the concept of determining what someone's personality is like by what map they prefer is itself ''{{w\|Social projection\|projection}}'' {{unsigned\|Mesoseven\|05:20, 3 January 2024}}		It should maybe be explained that the concept of determining what someone's personality is like by what map they prefer is itself ''{{w\|Social projection\|projection}}'' {{unsigned\|Mesoseven\|05:20, 3 January 2024}}
	:Might be worth disambiguating/adding to the {{w\|projection (psychology)}} link in the '''Title Text''' section. I mean, they're not totally the same thing, but could be dealt with together with the right wording. (PS, I shuffled/reformatted your contribution. You did 'sign', but not ''sign'', and you can check the layout of the handy wikilink template we use here if you read how I've made your link; and my own without any replacement text. Welcome to the wiki, and if you have any questions...) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.173\|172.70.90.173]] 07:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)		:Might be worth disambiguating/adding to the {{w\|projection (psychology)}} link in the '''Title Text''' section. I mean, they're not totally the same thing, but could be dealt with together with the right wording. (PS, I shuffled/reformatted your contribution. You did 'sign', but not ''sign'', and you can check the layout of the handy wikilink template we use here if you read how I've made your link; and my own without any replacement text. Welcome to the wiki, and if you have any questions...) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.173\|172.70.90.173]] 07:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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		+	I'm torn, which is better?
		+	*[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=977:_Map_Projections&oldid=376402 Images on the left]
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		+	*[https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=977:_Map_Projections&oldid=376406 Images on the right]
		+	--[[User:FaviFake\|FaviFake]] ([[User talk:FaviFake\|talk]]) 18:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

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 : FWIW, I disagree that Peters fans are "pompously concerned with social justice". IMO, they are just assholes who enjoy using the terminology of social justice as their cudgel. People who genuinely care about social justice don't use Peters.
-: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Organization for Migration are three of the world's largest social justice organizations. Each of them has been described as "pompous" by detractors. <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=%22amnesty+international%22+pompous</ref> <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=%22human+rights+watch%22+pompous</ref> <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=IOM+~migration+pompous</ref> None of them use Peters map projection. <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=world+map+site:amnesty.org&tbm=isch</ref> <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=world+map+site:hrw.org&tbm=isch</ref> <ref>https://www.google.com/search?q=world+map+site:iom.int&tbm=isch</ref> AI & HRW use a mix of Hobo-Dyer, Equirectangular, and probably Mercator. IOM uses something rounded (probably Robinson or W-T), Equirectangular, and Mercator. - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 19:34, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
+: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Organization for Migration are three of the world's largest social justice organizations. Each of them has been described as "pompous" by detractors. [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22amnesty+international%22+pompous] [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22human+rights+watch%22+pompous] [https://www.google.com/search?q=IOM+~migration+pompous] None of them use Peters map projection. [https://www.google.com/search?q=world+map+site:amnesty.org&tbm=isch] [https://www.google.com/search?q=world+map+site:hrw.org&tbm=isch] [https://www.google.com/search?q=world+map+site:iom.int&tbm=isch] AI & HRW use a mix of Hobo-Dyer, Equirectangular, and probably Mercator. IOM uses something rounded (probably Robinson or W-T), Equirectangular, and Mercator. - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 19:34, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 ::I'm inclined to agree; certainly we should be careful about calling people "pompous" in the article voice. I went back to the older wording but added "...and false claims..." after marketing stunts, which seems to have been the main thing that the person who changed it objected to and which can be stated more neutrally like that. --[[User:Aquillion|Aquillion]] ([[User talk:Aquillion|talk]]) 07:13, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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 It should maybe be explained that the concept of determining what someone's personality is like by what map they prefer is itself ''{{w|Social projection|projection}}'' {{unsigned|Mesoseven|05:20, 3 January 2024}}
 :Might be worth disambiguating/adding to the {{w|projection (psychology)}} link in the '''Title Text''' section. I mean, they're not totally the same thing, but could be dealt with together with the right wording. (PS, I shuffled/reformatted your contribution. You did 'sign', but not ''sign'', and you can check the layout of the handy wikilink template we use here if you read how I've made your link; and my own without any replacement text. Welcome to the wiki, and if you have any questions...) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.173|172.70.90.173]] 07:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

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 :Might be worth disambiguating/adding to the {{w|projection (psychology)}} link in the '''Title Text''' section. I mean, they're not totally the same thing, but could be dealt with together with the right wording. (PS, I shuffled/reformatted your contribution. You did 'sign', but not ''sign'', and you can check the layout of the handy wikilink template we use here if you read how I've made your link; and my own without any replacement text. Welcome to the wiki, and if you have any questions...) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.173|172.70.90.173]] 07:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
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 -- steve waterman {{unsigned ip|65.92.20.61}}
 :Perhaps the explanation should mention that Waterman himself signed up at forum.xkcd.com and vigorously denied that his map has anything to do with Cahill. At the time, it was unclear whether the account was really Waterman, or just a troll trying to make him look bad. - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 21:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 ;Kavrayskiy VII

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	It should maybe be explained that the concept of determining what someone's personality is like by what map they prefer is itself ''{{w\|Social projection\|projection}}'' {{unsigned\|Mesoseven\|05:20, 3 January 2024}}		It should maybe be explained that the concept of determining what someone's personality is like by what map they prefer is itself ''{{w\|Social projection\|projection}}'' {{unsigned\|Mesoseven\|05:20, 3 January 2024}}
		+	:Might be worth disambiguating/adding to the {{w\|projection (psychology)}} link in the '''Title Text''' section. I mean, they're not totally the same thing, but could be dealt with together with the right wording. (PS, I shuffled/reformatted your contribution. You did 'sign', but not ''sign'', and you can check the layout of the handy wikilink template we use here if you read how I've made your link; and my own without any replacement text. Welcome to the wiki, and if you have any questions...) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.173\|172.70.90.173]] 07:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

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-It should maybe be explained that the concept of determining what someone's personality is like by what map they prefer is itself ''projection''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection] -mesoseven
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 I have a Plate Carrée hanging on my wall myself. Never failed me yet. '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:05, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
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 i like peirce quincuncial and plate carree (bonus points the fact it's the oldest one). mercator is a bit meh, but let's give it credit for being one of the first projections (in fact it is the second oldest projection). gall-peters is the ugliest projection i've seen, and hobo-dyer is second ugliest. the butterfly one is also good but a bit weird, and the ichosaedron one that i forgot the name is... weird. like, wtf is that, it doesn't even look like a map, idk, where's europe there [[User:An user who has no account yet|An user who has no account yet]] ([[User talk:An user who has no account yet|talk]]) 18:31, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 :For the "icosahedron one", you mean the Dymaxion? In which case, Europe is in the topmost trapezoid (left, as opposed to the two triangles top-right). See Africa (Madagascar crossing an edge) in one corner, see the 'squiggle' of the Med and then Europe (rotated maybe 150 degrees over) crammed in the right of the extrusion. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.76|172.71.242.76]] 21:47, 6 September 2023 (UTC)