Projection / Proportion / Compatibility?

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  • May 27, 2014 at 1:59 pm #4894

    Graham Asher
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    Natural Earth data is unprojected degrees of latitude and longitude using the WGS84 datum.

    Judging by your image, one map is projected using the Mercator projection while the other is probably projected using the (very bad) Plate Carrée projection, which converts lat/long in a linear fashion to y and x coordinates.

    I advise looking up those projections in Wikipedia.

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