<div dir="auto">To that end, maplibre is working on trying to compute it on GPU in their library but in the meantime you can actually use PROJ to reproject maplibre to equal earth on a slippy map:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:inherit"><a href="https://willcohen.github.io/backproj/#crs=%2Bproj%3Deqearth&z=2.00&x=0.0000&y=10.4954&data=mvt&grid=1" style="font-size:inherit">https://willcohen.github.io/backproj/#crs=%2Bproj%3Deqearth&z=2.00&x=0.0000&y=10.4954&data=mvt&grid=1</a></div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:inherit"><a href="https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre/discussions/491#discussioncomment-16574631" style="font-size:inherit">https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre/discussions/491#discussioncomment-16574631</a></div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM Javier Jimenez Shaw via PROJ <<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://proj.org/en/stable/operations/projections/eqearth.html" target="_blank">https://proj.org/en/stable/operations/projections/eqearth.html</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 6 Sept 2026, 00:30 Mircea Neacsu via PROJ, <<a href="mailto:proj@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">proj@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D"><div><p class="MsoNormal">It’s not everyday that issues related to map projections make it to main page of major news sites (see for instance <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look very different | CNN</a>). Too me it’s very similar to the old Peters, or Gall-Peters projection debacle. In this context, do you think it is worthwhile adding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Equal Earth projection</a> to PROJ, or is it just an exercise in futility?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">To <a href="https://www.religion-online.org/article/social-consciousness-and-world-maps/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">quote John P. Snyder</a>: “A simplistic approach to the problems of map projection can result in misleading solutions.”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">-- <u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u><u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u> <u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Mircea Neacsu<u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u><u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">E: <a href="mailto:mircea@neacsu.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Courier New""><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:blue">mircea@neacsu.net</span></a><u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u><u style="font-family:"Courier New""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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