12-05, 14:00–14:30 (America/Belem), Room IV
Most of today's web maps are using the Web Mercator projection. A major issue of Web Mercator is the distortion of area sizes far from the equator.
In 2018 Bojan Šavrič, Tom Patterson and Bernhard Jenny published their work on the Equal Earth map projection, an equal-area projection for world maps.
This talk shows how to use the Equal Earth map projection for web mapping with different kind of data sources.
A growing collection of information about using Equal Earth is available at equal.bbox.earth.
Pirmin is a geospatial software developer since more than 20 years and has contributed to several Open Source projects. Pirmin is co-founder of Sourcepole, a Swiss company providing GIS services and solutions.