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)
https://feddit.org/comment/1079443
TY for highlighting the advantages of that projection.
Perhaps it is useful in that capacity but it introduces distortion for the entire rest of the world.
It’s China. Of course it does.
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.
The box in the bottom right corner literally says “see the world from a different perspective”.
从另一个角度看世界
(cóng lìng yīgè jiǎodù kàn shìjiè)The quality isn’t quite good enough for me to see the rest but they are highlighting the different projection.
It is quite funny to see the US and the Americas generally kinda cast to the side in this map.
While it’s obviously putting China and Asia in the middle (actually looks like India is right in the middle) … as far as making certain areas look bigger or smaller than actually are, compared to the standard mercator style projections … Russia and Greenland seem to be the “losers” here while Africa looks relatively huge.
Africa is huge- many people underestimate it, although in this case it is a bit too large compared to India in the middle. Also the colorscale makes Sahara and other low desert areas too green - the habitable part is not so great.
Africa is huge
Oh I know … I noted it as a positive of the map … probably makes Africa feel appropriately big compared to the rest of the world.
It is quite funny to see the US and the Americas generally kinda cast to the side in this map.
both are “generally” cast to the side. London is primal
Seems to make Antarctica look a lot smaller than it is too.
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
I’ve never seen a sinocentric modern map before. Weird that they decided to go with portrait mode.
Arguable. It’s more Pacific-central instead of the usual Atlantic-central.
That’s what every map looked like when I lived in Korea. Took me a while to get used to.
The one posted by OP really took me a minute to wrap my head around.
How else to fit both poles so close to the middle
It’s not really sino-centered though. It’s indian ocean centered at best. As another user pointed out, it says it exists to see the world from a different perspective. It’s not to be useful, only to show how things can look so much different with different perspectives.
'Cos it was the only way they could slice the americas the way many western maps slice asia
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
Cries in anjin
Having been to both places… Yeah I understand.
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I feel the blood rushing to my head
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.
It’s 中国 (Zhōngguó).
Ah, my bad. I couldn’t remember it exactly and the Wikipedia article was a bit confusing.
That’s probably 香花 (xiāng huā), “fragrant blossom”. Fitting name, she smells amazing.
ayo whut
I’m so stupid, I’m always thinking about traveling the global like east and west just go fucking north.
Don’t know why I zoomed in expecting to be able to read it
I’m Chinese, I’ve never seen a map like this before. We usually just use Mercator but split along the Atlantic ocean instead of the Pacific. This map is just kinda bizzare. Why is Antarctica so prioritized? Why’s it in portrait orientation? I think it’s just intentionally weird, which is still cool.
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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