Published 10:47 IST, August 11th 2020
Man creates world map centered on New Zealand, netizens hail it as 'the map we all need'
Geographer Simon Kuestenmacher tweeted a gift he made for his "Kiwi friend", a world map centered on New Zealand. Many said that this is the way a map should be
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German geographer Simon Kuestenmacher recently shared an im on Twitter showing a map of world but with New Zealand at centre. Kuestenmacher shared im for his ‘kiwi friend’, which h gone viral in time. Reacting to im, many netizens have expressed that this is how maps should look like, given fact how New Zealand was able to expertly tackle COVID-19 pandemic and has gone 100 days without a single community transmission.
Map for a 'kiwi friend'
im of map with New Zealand at its centre was shared on August 8 and has been liked by over 2,000 people and retweeted almost 700 times. Take a look at tweet and some reactions by people below:
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recent tweet has once again highlighted bias of Eurocentrism in maps across world. As per reports, back in 2017, Boston became first district in United States to rearrange its maps that were used in public schools so that true scale of countries could be shown and size of developed nations t be exaggerated as is case in maps based on Mercator Projection system.
(Im Credit Twitter/@simongerman600)
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10:47 IST, August 11th 2020