Quote Originally Posted by Lukc View Post
I love it, and the old school Mercator projection.
It's in Plate Carrée/Equidistant Cylindrical/Equirectangular projection, not Mercator.

A couple of notes. The scale bar is inappropriate as this map doesn't have a consistent scale. Although the small scale details show appropriate distortion for the projection, the large scale details do not. If you were to apply it to a globe, the continents would probably look OK, but the rivers and coastlines would be distorted. The rivers just look odd in their own right, on a map that looks to be fairly precise, they look highly stylized: being too wide, too, "ragged", and far, far, too short.

I'd have chosen a different projection that does a better job of representing shape or area, and drawn the rivers as simple lines instead.