Mercator vs. UN's new Equal Earth map, synced side by side
Details
- External ID
- 49663131
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mercator vs. UN's new Equal Earth map, synced side by side
- Website domain
- newworldsize.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5015948963317385
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- map projection comparison tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side visualization tool using map projection libraries (like D3-geo or Leaflet) to sync pan and zoom events side-by-side.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Side-by-side comparison of old and new UN world maps
Competitors
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Attention rank: #17 of 32 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.