I think the author has this wrong. Handling a ton of edge cases so I don’t have to do it myself is a good reason to use a library. Importing an endless tree of deps I have no control of - that is the issue.
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Technically it does not shrink Africa’s size but it inflates the apparent size of northern and southern areas.
It seems clear that the problems of African developement can be fixed by topping the evil cadre of cartographers that keep it down. On the other hand, Africa has an obvious advantage by coming first in alphabetical order.
Africa has also been in the middle of most world maps for a long time.
We have the technology to fix this: all maps should be dynamic, using a planar projection centred on the viewer’s coordinates. It will embiggen all local geography while omitting distant lands. We’ll call this approach the Egocentric Cartographic Model.
I was thinking precisely that making Africa appear larger would make it even more evident what a waste of space it is. If I were African I’d rather try and go unnoticed.
