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Name: MERCATOR
MMSI: 244660727
Callsign: PH4838
Type: Cargo
Flag: Netherlands
Seen: 10-Oct-2026 00:52:02 CEST
Speed: 8.9 kts
Heading: 189 deg
Dest.: ROTTERDAM
Distance: 65.0 nm
Signal RSSI: 0.0 dBFS
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VesselAlert
Name: MERCATOR
MMSI: 244660727
Callsign: PH4838
Type: Cargo
Flag: Netherlands
Seen: 08-Oct-2026 08:55:11 CEST
Speed: 0.1 kts
Heading: 64 deg
Dest.: ROTTERDAM
Distance: 3.9 nm
Signal RSSI: 0.0 dBFS
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VesselAlert
Name: MERCATOR
MMSI: 244660727
Callsign: PH4838
Flag: Netherlands
Seen: 05-Oct-2026 07:16:55 CEST
Status: moored
Speed: 0.1 kts
Heading: 64 deg
Dest.: LEEUWARDEN
Distance: 3.9 nm
Signal RSSI: -1.7 dBFS
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#ROCA DE #MARTA
www.ecosia.org/search?q=ROC...
#PROYECCIÓN DE #MERCATOR
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Mercator keeps every shape true and pays for it in area: land at 82° north is drawn 51 times too big. At the same total area as Equal Earth, its poles balloon while Africa, South America and India shrink.

#maps #cartography #dataviz #mercator

[1/8] REMARQUABLE. Le géographe Vincent Capdepuy rappelle qu’aucune carte du monde n’est "vraie". Toute projection déforme le globe. Le débat sur #Mercator porte donc moins sur 1 erreur à corriger que sur les choix, les usages et les effets politiques de nos représentations. #geography #cartography

VesselAlert
Name: MERCATOR
MMSI: 244660727
Callsign: PH4838
Type: Cargo
Flag: Netherlands
Seen: 24-Sep-2026 12:00:54 CEST
Speed: 2.0 kts
Heading: 303 deg
Dest.: WESTHAVEN
Distance: 59.4 nm
Signal RSSI: 0.0 dBFS
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¿Por qué el mapa del mundo deforma África y la ONU quiere cambiarlo? #Mapas #Mercator #EqualEarth #Africa #ONU #Geografia #Cartografia #Ciencia #Actualidad #Mundo #PlanetaTierra #Educacion #felizlunes #21deseptiembre

¿Tenemos un nuevo mapa de la Tierra?🌍

El pasado 4 de septiembre, la ONU aprobaba el modelo de Equal Earth 🗺️

Os explicamos todo y que diferentes proyecciones cartográficas han sido utilizadas 🌐

#equalearth #onu #mapa #maps #mercator

Worth your time: The Guardian produced an interactive #geography scrollytelling piece to explain #EqualEarth vs. #Mercator.

👇🌍🌐

https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/sep/18/map-cartographers-western-bias-mercator-equal-earth

Many thanks to @dhnow.bsky.social for highlighting my recent blog post on the Mercator/Equal Earth question, and for the very thoughtful framing/introduction.

#cartography #projection #Mercator

digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2026/09/proj...

Map Dress in Mercator

@julietjfall.bsky.social Juliet said "Beginning of exams for some of our geography students today, so rocking my new map dress with its epically-rubbish projection. Why yes, dear students, of course Greenland is bigger than South America!" #sewing #maps #mercator

Map Dress in Mercator

@julietjfall.bsky.social Juliet said "Beginning of exams for some of our geography students today, so rocking my new map dress with its epically-rubbish projection. Why yes, dear students, of course Greenland is bigger than South America!" #sewing #maps #mercator

This is about time! Thanks #Togo for fronting this issue, fighting #conceptualcolonialism. Also note that #equator is not in the middle of the #oldmap #Mercator... Yey, #EckertVI!!! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Hoe het werk van #Mercator ook vandaag nog op het hoogste niveau wordt besproken. #Rupelmonde #Vlaanderen
bbc.com/news/article...

A #Mercator no le importaba el #area de muchos territorios. Le importaba algo muy práctico.

#Mercator ideó esa #proyección, donde la intersección de #meridianos y #paralelos es ortogonal, con el fin de trazar los rumbos de #navegación como línea rectas

Une résolution des Nations unies a endossé cette semaine, à la quasi-unanimité, une recommandation de changer la façon dont les cartes géographiques du monde sont faites depuis 450 ans.
#Politique #Cartographie #Mercator #ONU

Popular this week: The Equal Earth projection #map is designed to better represent relative sizes of countries and continents. Find out how the #EqualEarth map compares with the familiar #Mercator at: buff.ly/3P3UEzL

📸 Tom Patterson/ Wikimedia Commons.

The UN backs the Equal Earth map, retiring Mercator after 450 years. Africa looked 14x smaller than it is. Maps shape who we think matters. #EqualEarth #Cartography #Mercator #Geography

https://freegardner.com/sci_scout/un-votes-to-replace-mercator-map-with-equal-earth.html

Avant et à cause sans doute du retard pris à remplacer #mercator par #eckertIV d'aucuns ont pris de l'avance pour sanctionner les votes négatifs et les questions de remigration. (voir le texte)