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Map of the world with actual sizes compared to Mercator projections
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:54 am
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:54 am
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Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:55 am to DavidTheGnome
What?
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:56 am to RummelTiger
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What?
Map of the world with actual sizes compared to Mercator projections
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:57 am to DavidTheGnome
WHAT?
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:57 am to DavidTheGnome
How naughty.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:58 am to DavidTheGnome
Dark is actual size
Glad to do the legwork for you davidgnome
Glad to do the legwork for you davidgnome
Posted on 6/8/19 at 11:58 am to DavidTheGnome
Pretty cool. Strange that the exaggerate the size so much. Must be a guy that created it.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
#mercatorisracist
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
What is a "Mercator projection"? A mathematical term? A model based on climate change? A historic estimate based on limited knowledge?
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:02 pm to DavidTheGnome
Of course Africa is as big as advertised.
This post was edited on 6/8/19 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:02 pm to tiggerthetooth
LINK
It’s a way of projecting a round Earth onto a flat sheet of paper
It’s a way of projecting a round Earth onto a flat sheet of paper
This post was edited on 6/8/19 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:05 pm to DavidTheGnome
Ha, I knew Antarctica was a fake continent!
This post was edited on 6/8/19 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:09 pm to DavidTheGnome
And this is why we have the Flat Earthers
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
Russia ain’t nothin’!
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:15 pm to DavidTheGnome
So africa didnt lie about their size.....interesting
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:35 pm to rattlebucket
BBA
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:37 pm to MojoGuyPan
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And this is why we have the Flat Earthers
No moms doing drugs while pregnant is why we have Flat Earthers
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:39 pm to Saintsisit
There’s no such thing as flat earthers. It’s just people taking a joke way too far
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
I never understood why Greenland is projected so bigly
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:41 pm to DavidTheGnome
It’s impossible to create a perfect flat map from a sphere. So, certain kinds of maps emphasize certain attributes, depending on what they are used for. Because early maps were primarily used for navigation, they emphasized getting the coastlines as correct as possible. This meant that landmasses with complex coastlines were bigger, to show the detail, while landmasses with relatively simple coastlines were smaller.
We all got used to that look over the course of several hundred years, so it’s what we most commonly use.
Frankly, you were all taught this in school at one point. The problem is that it was likely sometime around the third grade
We all got used to that look over the course of several hundred years, so it’s what we most commonly use.
Frankly, you were all taught this in school at one point. The problem is that it was likely sometime around the third grade
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