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The Mercator Projection.
This map has North at the top, South at the bottom, The Atlantic in the middle of the map, and the Pacific on the edges, and split in half.
The map is designed to keep longitude and latitude lines straight. This has the effect of making the countries closer to the poles much bigger than they actually are, and relatively bigger in reality than countries closer to the equator.
Possible Values: North Hemisphere-centric, Atlantic-Centric, Navigation is valued over other needs/knowledge, European-N.American Centric. Therefore argued by some to support 19thC+ imperial values.
Click here to see the true size of countries relative to their Mercator projection.
The "Inverse" Mercator.
This map is shown as being 'upside down' from the traditional map. Of course, North and South are constructed labels rather than empirical realities. There is no empirical reason to show the North Pole at the to, and the South Pole at the bottom. This map is just as accurate as the traditional Mercator.
Possible Values:
Southern Hemisphere Centric, non-conventional, anti-establishment, provocative.
British Empire Map
This map was produced during the period of British Empire (1780-1950). It highlights land occupied by The British during that period. It misrepresents the size of the British Isles relative to other countries on the map.
Possible Values:
Anglo-Centrism, Colonialism, Imperialism
Pacific Centric Map.
This map challenges the traditional Atlantic-centric map so often used. This Pacific-centric map puts Asia-Oceana at the centre of the page. Asia is the most populous area of the world.
Possible Values:
Asian-centric, Pacific-centric, Population-Centric. Anti-conventional, provocative.
Country size proportionate to Absolute Poverty.
This map shows the proportion of all people on less than or equal to US$1.9 in purchasing power parity a day living there in 2016.
Possible Values:
Equity, Redistribution, Anti-Establishment, Global-Southist, Anti-poverty
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