[PROJ] Equal Earth projection

[Will Cohen]

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:

https://willcohen.github.io/backproj/#crs=%2Bproj%3Deqearth&z=2.00&x=0.0000&y=10.4954&data=mvt&grid=1

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre/discussions/491#discussioncomment-16574631


On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM Javier Jimenez Shaw via PROJ <
proj at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> https://proj.org/en/stable/operations/projections/eqearth.html
>
> On Sun, 6 Sept 2026, 00:30 Mircea Neacsu via PROJ, <proj at lists.osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> It’s not everyday that issues related to map projections make it to main
>> page of major news sites (see for instance UN votes to adopt new map
>> that makes our world look very different | CNN
>> <https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/world/un-vote-new-world-map-intl-scli>).
>> 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 Equal
>> Earth projection <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection>
>> to PROJ, or is it just an exercise in futility?
>>
>>
>>
>> To quote John P. Snyder
>> <https://www.religion-online.org/article/social-consciousness-and-world-maps/>:
>> “A simplistic approach to the problems of map projection can result in
>> misleading solutions.”
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Mircea Neacsu
>>
>> E: mircea at neacsu.net
>>
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