Seems like it’s very specifically chosen to preserve distances and reduce distortion along the longitude lines closest to China. Perhaps it is useful in that capacity but it introduces distortion for the entire rest of the world.
I guess it really puts the 中 in 中国 (中 means middle, 中国 means “middle country” and is the Chinese name of China)
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TY for highlighting the advantages of that projection.
Seems like this map accurately displays the poles at the expense of the continents
Looks quite similar to a Cassini projection with the 75° E meridian as centre instead of the 0° meridian.
Indeed, thanks!
but why tf is the equator not in the center
This is also the first portrait map I’ve seen, too. Really novel design choices here (why centre just south of India?)
The equator is one centre axis, one meridian, here 75° E the other. Thus, 0° N 75° E is the centre here instead of 0° N 0° E.
Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.
I love the one that shows Japan at the top very heavenly looking, and then the British Isles at the very bottom looking like the savage end of the world
Having been to both places… Yeah I understand.
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this is gorgeous thank you so much for sharing it. so interesting. terrible projection for many reasons of course but fascinating for so many more
The way the map is layed out definitely makes it the hardest map I’ve ever tried to understand.
Dem great lakes tho
Good old “Zhonghua”.
Xianghua is a top 3 Soul Calibur character fosho
In case anyone is OOTL, that’s the Chinese word for China, and it can be translated as “middle kingdom” or similar, implying that they are literally in the center of the world.
It’s a way every culture tends to think about themselves, TBF.
Much like the Mediterranean.
Don’t know why I zoomed in expecting to be able to read it
5 insert currency says every china border on that map is wrong
This is not a political map
Wrong. It’s just literally all China. /s
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