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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon mapbox

Please support projections other than Mercator

Open Mike-Honey opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Please add support for other map projections besides Mercator. For example I'm working on a project focused on the Arctic region, where Mercator is so distorted it lacks any credibility.

Mike-Honey avatar Jul 23 '19 23:07 Mike-Honey

The underlying API only supports Web Mercator, so this is not really a Power BI-specific issue. You can track this ticket: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/3184

For reference: https://docs.mapbox.com/help/glossary/projection/

otravers avatar Jul 24 '19 00:07 otravers

Thanks @otravers , that doesnt look very likely at this point.

I stumbled across this project, which seems to be an attempted workaround for mapbox-gl, but I dont think its useful in this context: https://www.developmentseed.org/dirty-reprojectors-app/

Mike-Honey avatar Jul 25 '19 10:07 Mike-Honey

@Mike-Honey I'm with you on Mercator, what with Greenland being almost as big as Africa, but that's what commonly used in web maps, especially for business purposes (Power BI's core audience being business users). I think you can close this ticket for the time being as I don't see this happening anytime soon.

otravers avatar Jul 25 '19 13:07 otravers