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Is this a penis size chart?
BBC wins again.
Haha, Russia 🤏
America:
Greenland would like a word.
Also Russia.
Small if true
Greenland and the islands above Canada are so stupidly out of porpotion.
How do people drive across the gaps though.
I had a buddy who thought borders were moats between countries, since the borders were coloured blue on our class map. Good ol’ education system winning again.
I never even saw the Mercator projection before coming into contact with the anglosphere internet. I don’t know why anyone is still using it.
Which protection did you grow up with?
probably this one
While maybe not exactly a Mercator projection, it has the same issue of northern countries’ geography being enlarged compared to countries closer to the equator. For example, Russia still looks way to big in this projection too
It’s good for sailing
or pointing antennas.Edit: Wait no, you need an actual geodesic for that over long distances. If you’re traveling, though, a constant compass heading is indispensable.
This is why i like robinson projection, same thing as mercator except squished by the cosine of latitude to account for area distortion
Looks better but is basically unusable for navigation in any sense. Mercator at least preserves direction but not size. Robinson preserves nothing. It combines all the drawbacks without adding any advantages except “looks nice”. Which is actually the philosophy of the projection:
I visualized the best-looking shapes and sizes. I worked with the variables until it got to the point where, if I changed one of them, it didn’t get any better. Then I figured out the mathematical formula to produce that effect.
I can respect that. 10/10 no notes.
I’ll have to avoid that map the next time I’m sailing across the Pacific, then.
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Who uses a full sized world map for navigation? This isn’t the Golden Age of Piracy. You’d have local maps that don’t have any distortion since they’re at a much narrower field of view.
Something like we used in the army like this:
Every day? But not at the scale where I need to view the whole globe
So what’s your favourite Beatles song then?
I don’t pay much attention to xkcd, yet it seems like I’ve seen every xkcd(?)
I’d say this is one of my favorites, and that would be correct, but that’s like saying sweet potato pie is my favorite pie.
I don’t like how those are all equator based. Why doesn’t anyone center the map on Antarctica? 😭
Why does this view trigger my fear of heights?
Now that’s a useful map!
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I’d not heard of that one, thats super cool!
No Antarctica?
It’s there. It’s the tiniest dot there at the bottom.
I don’t believe you.
What’s the dark blue vs light blue?
Russ is a really cool map. I love maps that show the actual size comparison.
Dark represents the actual sizes in relation to each other. Light blue is the mercator projection, inflating our ego in the northern hemisphere.
Yikes.
I think this is my favorite visualization of the size distortion that I’ve seen!
Who the hell was the Mur-Cattor fella and why should we care?
It’s a really good map for navigating at sea. The compass directions are always going to be accurate vs. something like the Robinson projection with accurate size but distorted shape.
Every projection is a compromise and a distortion. Globe is best :)
More to your point, is is probably the most popular projection – even online maps like Google use a version of it – so it is worth being able to recognize it and understand its strengths and weaknesses.
“…a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.” - Wikipedia
Basically it was really cool and advanced geometry in the 1500s. Other fun inventions of the time included bongs, rifles, and knitting machines.
This should be the standard.
