The EqualA is the last raster basemap you’ll ever need. A compromise between the too-small WorldA and too-big Qbam, the EqualA’s size is just right. The Florence meridian means nothing gets cut in half. And its consistent Equal Earth projection, accurately representing the size of every country, means all you have to do is drop your data into Qgis and reproject — no more faffing around with inconsistent transforms.
Use it for data. Use it for world history. Use it for alternate history and for whatever creative ideas take your fancy. With a CC0 public domain declaration, you can use it for all that and more to your heart’s content.
Corrected stray pixels in Mexico, Libya, and on the map border near Alaska.
Updated regional borders in Algeria and Mali.
Shrunk Lake Geneva to be truer to actual size.
Added claims in Antarctica to the colour map, and fixed the borders on the main map.
Removed indigenous-controlled areas in Canada; so far as i can tell, they function more akin to subdivisions of the provinces than the weird not-federal-not-state-but-a-secret-third-thing thing the U.S.’ reservations have going on.
Removed Spain’s provinces, for similar reasons.
Fiddled around a bit with water colours.
2023B (2023 Feb. 12):
Finally gave the EqualA a definitive home on this site. Changelog doesn’t go any further back than this, because i’m a lazy bastard. :-)
