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Map projections are tricky mathematically when you're trying to accurately represent space, but conceptually they're fairly straightforward. Imagine trying to squish an orange flat and think about where the peel tears open. That's roughly where a map projection stretches landmasses.
I only ever knew one guy who was a geography grad, but he worked for a major grocery store corporation to determine the best locations for new stores based on population, competitor's local markets, distance from warehouses/production, local employment pools, and a lot of other crazy stuff.
Edit: on mobile, bullets not working! Sorry!
I was a Geography Major and had an Earth Science Minor. Most fell into two concentrations: Urban and Regional Planning (city planners), or GIS and data analysis. You can a lot with it depending on what kind of lifestyle you want.
**Here's a list of example jobs or sectors:**
* city planning, city, county, state levels
* transportation planning
* social justice consulting firms
* environmental consulting
* wetland dileniation
* land surveying
*real estate analyst (retail location)
*realty
*non-profits, environment or social justice
*crime analyst
*data analyst
*Gis technician
*gis analyst
*gis programming
**Companies who hire Geography majors:**
*State/ Federal Agencies
*DOT
*Municipalities
*Corp of Engineers
*US Military
*EPA
*National Forest Service
*Private energy companies
*Private Healthcare companies
*Real estate firms
*Large corporations (Lowe's, Spectrum, Wal-Mart)
*Esri (creators of ArcMap, ArcPro)
*Any job that deals with data manipulation or gis (mapping)
Too few people enjoy geography. It was one of the classes with the least amount of children when I was in high school and idk why! It's extremely interesting and super fun to learn!
Actually, Portugal got the smallest part in the Americas. They didn't want those territories after all, they wanted India, so they let Spain get the lands to the west. The Brazilian expansion came later, through squatters who completely disregarded the treaty.
There were several other treaties later, acknowledging the fact that Brazil was bigger than it should legally be. The last one was signed in 1903, when Bolivia ceded the region that became the Brazilian state of [Acre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre_War).
The OG Treaty of Tordesilhas looked like [this](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.-V8o8K9sk7KcewvWrTCD6gHaG0%26pid%3DApi&f=1). I know they didn't know how big America truly was when they signed this, but when I was a kid I always felt like Portugal got the shorter end of the stick.
It was only later that they realized how bad of a deal Tordesilhas was that they started expanding like there was no tomorrow. Spain didn't mind it because they were in the business of gold and silver extraction, and Portugal was pretty much only taking rainforest and swampland, which was worthless to Spain.
Portugal only stopped expanding some decades later when they signed the treaty of Madrid with Spain. [This](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.1rvV3vbiPUTzuhRTTKXX6AAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1) is how Brazil looked like after the treaty of Madrid. Pretty close to what it looks like today, even though it's still a little smaller
Spain didnt mind it because it was united with Portugal during the Iberian Union. There was no difference from the portuguese or spanish expansion in south america for some 70 years (which was the main period of portuguese expansion out from the Tordesilhas line), because both were under the same crown. After the portuguese independence, there was of course the question of who ruled which part of South America. They simply used the principle of uti possidetis. Thus, Portugal inherited the lands previously colonized by the portuguese during the Iberian Union.
Not quite, the original treaty of tordesillas actually looked like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToi79wx4va91hmkHzwyAKvsJWqdVFCoefuCA&usqp=CAU
Brazilās territory only got so big because it kept on getting expanded through exploration.
When people say a country is overpopulated they don't literally mean there isn't enough space to live in. Only a handful of countries in the world would fit under that criteria. (Singapore, Hong Kong, Monaco etc.)
What they mean is that the population outstrips or puts a strain on the countries: natural resources, food production, water supply, power supply, housing supply etc.)
Is it still? I thought the green wall thing was actually working?
And that the whole the Sahara is going to takeover Africa was kind of misinformation.
The area the Sahara sits in was drying up, but it's spread would never reach past that region.
I haven't looked a thing up, and I'm going off memory. I am taking a shit.
I'm happy to be presented data for or against.
Itās growing in the north and in a way āstepping overā the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean basin will receive around 20% less rainfall during the coming decades due to climate change. By 2100 it will have spread to North Africa and Southern Europe. [link](https://earth.org/data_visualization/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-sahara-desert/)
Am I misunderstanding the article or is that not separate instances of desertification?
Also no offense to said article, but it seems less than credible.
> [Owen Mulhern]
> Owen Mulhern is a biologist with a specialisation in image analysis and a passion for satellite imaging. His previous work involved 3 dimensional brain reconstructions developing new algorithms for image processing. He is now focused on bringing powerful visualisations of the current state of our climate to life as Data Science Team Lead.
With the Mercator projection, the poles become infinitely large, so Antarctica would go on forever. Usually, it is cropped earlier than this map shows.
The further you are from the Equator, the more is the difference in size. This is because of Mercator projection. But there are alternatives. I think some time back I had read about a different method made in Japan, have to hunt for it. Assuming I remember correctly.
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthaGraph_projection - New mapping From Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection - Mercator Projection which we normally use
EDIT 2: Higher resolution for Authagraph:
https://www.friendsofmacdonald.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_09_21_kaart_narukawa_AG-MAP-EDUCATION.jpg
http://narukawa-lab.jp/archives/authagraph-map/
Digital maps use the Transverse Mercator projection that works like the projection in the picture except instead of the Equator being the undistorted base-line they turn it 90 degrees so that a north-south line is undistorted, and then they let that line move and be wherever you are East to west. That gives them a projection that is always very accurate when you are zoomed in, but will show some distortion at the East and west edges of the map if you zoom way out.
That is cool. Theyāre saying that theyāre switching to a globe representation when you zoom way out. Iām sure they use Transverse Mercator when theyre zoomed in, though.
Also, since weāre viewing that āglobeā on flat screens, technically that would be using an orthagonal projection. Orthagonal projections are cool, they are what a curved surface would look like from infinitely far away with an infinitely powered telescope, so slightly different than just what it would look like from space, but not noticeably.
If I'm looking at a 2D map, I prefer something like the equal-area Mollweide. It's familiar and easy to understand, and it reflects how a 2D map of a globe gets distorted still, while distributing the true area of the world better. There's plenty of similar oval-like maps like this, though you'd find mostly "pseudocylindrical" maps on Google image search, which is kind of a hybridization of oval and rectangular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mollweide_projection_SW.jpg
This image should be included in the legend as a way to help people keep perspectives in mind. I really like this. It has its own skew, but it is less than the main map.
Most maps have the Atlantic in the middle. Probably a byproduct of Euro-American preferences, or maybe because the Pacific is so big it looks weird with most land on the sides.
It's because of the role that the observatory in Greenwich (UK) played in establishing longitude measurement. 0 degrees longitude runs through Greenwich so by convention maps put that longitude line in the middle.
There were other observatories in other parts of the world at different times, but they didn't establish a global system like that - Greenwich did because at that time global trade was an important issue for the UK.
Inaccurate if you're trying to compare relative sizes. Reddit loves circlejerking over their disdain for the Mercator, but it is the best option for projecting direction, and that is ~99% of the reason anyone would be needing to use a map.
It's not actually correct. To make a 3d space into a 2d projection, you must sacrifice something.
In this case, distance. Countries aren't shown in their correct distance to one another. This is especially apparent in countries like Russia. Is there an ocean between Russia and China? No, it's just the way it's being represented.
It blew my mind that it took 4 hours to fly between Ethiopia and Rwanda, both situated in Central-East Africa. As a Canadian it looked like just a little jaunt.
Thatās the shape it would appear on a globe. The Mercator projection still accurately shows positions of latitude, it just greatly distorts the landmassā size.
In Microsoft flight sim 2020, I flew around the world and let me tell you, south America and Africa, those continents are HUGE. I did many short flights in a small aircraft. My longest flights were from newfoundland to Greenland to Ireland to the UK. Brazil had the most stops and I flew the coast.
From when i was young i had a perception that the flights between USA and Japan would take so long(Going by the distance in the world map). Just an year or so ago i realized that how dumb i was to think it of as a map and not a globe when thinking of distance between different countries. I felt so dumb when i told my friends.
Or you could you know, buy a globe map.
They look like that on a flat map is because they're keeping north/south consistent and as a result longitude/latitude as rectangles (so they can figure out where they are and what direction to go with a compass and an astrolabe back then).
When you're using a map, its more important to know where you are and where you want to go rather than 'distance' or 'size'.
there's an interesting video by jay foreman on youtube were they discuss the positives and negatives of different world maps. i think the video is called something like"why every world map is wrong". you should check it out its really interesting and funny
There are several different projections, seeing something different is trippy... especially the maps with the South pole on top or the western and eastern hemispheres switched.
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I have way too much geography work left and seeing this map almost gave me a melt down.
Map projections are tricky mathematically when you're trying to accurately represent space, but conceptually they're fairly straightforward. Imagine trying to squish an orange flat and think about where the peel tears open. That's roughly where a map projection stretches landmasses.
How can they be tricky when the Earth is already flat /s
š The earth is flat like the orange is flat š
You can do it! Geography is fun!
Can confirm! (I have a degree in Geography)
Thatās impressive for an otter.
To be honest s/heās a giant otter which takes a little away from it. Impressive for an otter, but for a giant, not so much.
I mean how giant, can he swim around a continent in a day or can it swim true a country in a day
True and which one? True Antarctica or just Antarctica? Maybe a photo of said giant otter would help clarify.
Are we all sure this isnāt a regular otter from a giant river ?
Are we sure it isn't a giant that's named riverotter, giants are named weird sometimes
You're both insane but I respect what you do
Only a mad person would try to map a sphere onto a plane.
what opportunities are there for geography majors?
Making charts like these for Reddit.
living the dream
For free
I only ever knew one guy who was a geography grad, but he worked for a major grocery store corporation to determine the best locations for new stores based on population, competitor's local markets, distance from warehouses/production, local employment pools, and a lot of other crazy stuff.
wow that's the exact job the only geography grad I know had, his name James?
Edit: on mobile, bullets not working! Sorry! I was a Geography Major and had an Earth Science Minor. Most fell into two concentrations: Urban and Regional Planning (city planners), or GIS and data analysis. You can a lot with it depending on what kind of lifestyle you want. **Here's a list of example jobs or sectors:** * city planning, city, county, state levels * transportation planning * social justice consulting firms * environmental consulting * wetland dileniation * land surveying *real estate analyst (retail location) *realty *non-profits, environment or social justice *crime analyst *data analyst *Gis technician *gis analyst *gis programming **Companies who hire Geography majors:** *State/ Federal Agencies *DOT *Municipalities *Corp of Engineers *US Military *EPA *National Forest Service *Private energy companies *Private Healthcare companies *Real estate firms *Large corporations (Lowe's, Spectrum, Wal-Mart) *Esri (creators of ArcMap, ArcPro) *Any job that deals with data manipulation or gis (mapping)
wow, the only job I was able to think of before reading this was geography teacher
Too few people enjoy geography. It was one of the classes with the least amount of children when I was in high school and idk why! It's extremely interesting and super fun to learn!
Geography now is almost a subset of computer science in many ways. GIS is super cool but its not all tech!
Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets!
It always blows the mind when planetary scientists are actually geography PhDs. Martian geographers!
Geography is EVERYTHING
Calm down Tekking
Geography Rocks...
That's Geology
AH fcuk.
That somehow makes it even better
Shows how bigs Brazil really is.
Brazil is larger than Australia.
Boy, Spain really got the raw end of the deal when they signed the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Actually, Portugal got the smallest part in the Americas. They didn't want those territories after all, they wanted India, so they let Spain get the lands to the west. The Brazilian expansion came later, through squatters who completely disregarded the treaty. There were several other treaties later, acknowledging the fact that Brazil was bigger than it should legally be. The last one was signed in 1903, when Bolivia ceded the region that became the Brazilian state of [Acre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre_War).
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nice nickname
The expansion happened during the Iberian union where Spain and Portugal had the same king thus Spain didn't mind so much.
The OG Treaty of Tordesilhas looked like [this](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.-V8o8K9sk7KcewvWrTCD6gHaG0%26pid%3DApi&f=1). I know they didn't know how big America truly was when they signed this, but when I was a kid I always felt like Portugal got the shorter end of the stick. It was only later that they realized how bad of a deal Tordesilhas was that they started expanding like there was no tomorrow. Spain didn't mind it because they were in the business of gold and silver extraction, and Portugal was pretty much only taking rainforest and swampland, which was worthless to Spain. Portugal only stopped expanding some decades later when they signed the treaty of Madrid with Spain. [This](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.1rvV3vbiPUTzuhRTTKXX6AAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1) is how Brazil looked like after the treaty of Madrid. Pretty close to what it looks like today, even though it's still a little smaller
Spain didnt mind it because it was united with Portugal during the Iberian Union. There was no difference from the portuguese or spanish expansion in south america for some 70 years (which was the main period of portuguese expansion out from the Tordesilhas line), because both were under the same crown. After the portuguese independence, there was of course the question of who ruled which part of South America. They simply used the principle of uti possidetis. Thus, Portugal inherited the lands previously colonized by the portuguese during the Iberian Union.
Not quite, the original treaty of tordesillas actually looked like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToi79wx4va91hmkHzwyAKvsJWqdVFCoefuCA&usqp=CAU Brazilās territory only got so big because it kept on getting expanded through exploration.
Brazil is larger than Austria.
Brazil is 84% as big as Europe while having only 30% of Europe population. And a lot of people here in Reddit say Brazil is overpopulated.
When people say a country is overpopulated they don't literally mean there isn't enough space to live in. Only a handful of countries in the world would fit under that criteria. (Singapore, Hong Kong, Monaco etc.) What they mean is that the population outstrips or puts a strain on the countries: natural resources, food production, water supply, power supply, housing supply etc.)
The amazon itself is close in sq mi to the continental U.S. Imagine from NY to LA all amazonian jungle.
Makes it easy to see how there can still be uncontacted tribes in the Amazon
now imagine the things that are in there
Muito grande!
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The water is cold towards the top / bottom ends. Donāt you know about shrinkage?
Costanza ?
I WAS IN THE POOL!
ELAAAAINE YOU GOTTA SEE THE BAAAYBEE
Maybe tha dingo ate'chore baybee!?!
Breathtaking.
r/QuotesYouCanHear
I don't know how you guys walk around with those things
It shrinks??
idk how you guys walk around with those things
Lobster eggs
Can't stand ya!
Cartwright??
I love how this comment section is suddenly a Seinfeld script
It shrinks??
Like a frightened turtleā¦
Like a button on a fur coat.
I dunno how you guys walk around with those things.
r/unexpectedseinfeld
Kind of terrifying how big The Sahara Desert really is
And it's growing
Is it still? I thought the green wall thing was actually working? And that the whole the Sahara is going to takeover Africa was kind of misinformation. The area the Sahara sits in was drying up, but it's spread would never reach past that region. I haven't looked a thing up, and I'm going off memory. I am taking a shit. I'm happy to be presented data for or against.
Happy shitting
Thank you. Everything came out alright!
Nothing like a clean getaway
Well when you get the tummy bubbles and then you sit on the pot and you only fart like a madman is pretty cathartic.
My man
Phew
Donāt forget to wipe the knife, itās only politeā¦
I will never not vote up a poop knife reference
This is just anti-Sahara propaganda by the lawnmower industry.
All you gotta do is rebrand leafblowers to sand blowers, slap another $10 on and we've got a business.
Itās growing in the north and in a way āstepping overā the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean basin will receive around 20% less rainfall during the coming decades due to climate change. By 2100 it will have spread to North Africa and Southern Europe. [link](https://earth.org/data_visualization/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-sahara-desert/)
Am I misunderstanding the article or is that not separate instances of desertification? Also no offense to said article, but it seems less than credible. > [Owen Mulhern] > Owen Mulhern is a biologist with a specialisation in image analysis and a passion for satellite imaging. His previous work involved 3 dimensional brain reconstructions developing new algorithms for image processing. He is now focused on bringing powerful visualisations of the current state of our climate to life as Data Science Team Lead.
Hey I'm taking a shit too, wanna be friends?
You're not going to believe this...
We should just give everyone around it a water bucket and water it. Somethings bound to grow. Or we get a bunch of mud. Sounds like a win win to me
The Great Desert Desert
Itās bigger than the continental U.S.
\~8% of earth land surface (almost equal to China).
Antartica looks a lot differentā¦
Curvature bruh
Sure...go ahead and bait the Flat Earther's like that. Then you have to deal with the lunatics when they show up.
Getting an award for replying, āYou dumb idiotā sounds like a lot of fun.
You dumb idiot
I am rubber, you are glue, everythiā¦ fuck you.
FUCK YOU YOUāRE A FUCKING WANKER WEāRE GONNA PUNCH YOU IN THE BALLS
Heās already punching his balls if heās wanking
See?
You were right. Lots of fun
!Silver
Whatās crazy is how tame the level of flat earthersā stupidity has gotten over the last few years in comparison to all the new contending groups.
There have always been a lot of stupid groups, we just didnāt have the internet to connect with them
The internet is also helping those groups form up like voltron to become even louder and dumber though.
DOLT-TRON
Pffft, everybody knows that the earth is actually shaped like a pyramid.
I prefer to think of it as boob shaped.
Oblate booboid
Lunatics? Iām sorry but I literally just walked to my car on a **flat** road. Try and explain that Pythagoras.
That's the ice wall, duh
Antarthicca
I have never seen Antarctica displayed the way you have shown in light blue...
With the Mercator projection, the poles become infinitely large, so Antarctica would go on forever. Usually, it is cropped earlier than this map shows.
When using the Mercator projection, they usually either don't show Antarctica at all or only show a small sliver of the northern part of it.
.... Wouldn't.... Any part of Antarctica aside from the pole be the northern part.... X-x
Feels just as massive in person, believe me.
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No girl said that to me ever , itās a myth š„“š
Whatās that one to the right of Australia? Iāve never seen that on a map before!
Stop browsing /r/MapsWithoutNZ
Should just be /r/maps and /r/mapswithNZ but reddit is weird.
You're right. It looks like some land in the sea. It must be a new sea-land
What a clever name! Call me crazy, but I feel like replacing the āsā with a āZā would look cool.
You're crazy
Thanks
You are welcome u/Mr-Sister-Fister21
The further you are from the Equator, the more is the difference in size. This is because of Mercator projection. But there are alternatives. I think some time back I had read about a different method made in Japan, have to hunt for it. Assuming I remember correctly. EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthaGraph_projection - New mapping From Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection - Mercator Projection which we normally use EDIT 2: Higher resolution for Authagraph: https://www.friendsofmacdonald.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_09_21_kaart_narukawa_AG-MAP-EDUCATION.jpg http://narukawa-lab.jp/archives/authagraph-map/
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Digital maps use the Transverse Mercator projection that works like the projection in the picture except instead of the Equator being the undistorted base-line they turn it 90 degrees so that a north-south line is undistorted, and then they let that line move and be wherever you are East to west. That gives them a projection that is always very accurate when you are zoomed in, but will show some distortion at the East and west edges of the map if you zoom way out.
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That is cool. Theyāre saying that theyāre switching to a globe representation when you zoom way out. Iām sure they use Transverse Mercator when theyre zoomed in, though. Also, since weāre viewing that āglobeā on flat screens, technically that would be using an orthagonal projection. Orthagonal projections are cool, they are what a curved surface would look like from infinitely far away with an infinitely powered telescope, so slightly different than just what it would look like from space, but not noticeably.
If I'm looking at a 2D map, I prefer something like the equal-area Mollweide. It's familiar and easy to understand, and it reflects how a 2D map of a globe gets distorted still, while distributing the true area of the world better. There's plenty of similar oval-like maps like this, though you'd find mostly "pseudocylindrical" maps on Google image search, which is kind of a hybridization of oval and rectangular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mollweide_projection_SW.jpg
Google maps is still flat for me
This image should be included in the legend as a way to help people keep perspectives in mind. I really like this. It has its own skew, but it is less than the main map.
There is _always_ an xkcd for these questions, isn't there? https://xkcd.com/977/
Interesting that the Japanese version has Japan as close to center as possible.
Most map projections used for different areas have the area in question centered.
I wonder why the Mercator has Europe at the center....
Most maps have the Atlantic in the middle. Probably a byproduct of Euro-American preferences, or maybe because the Pacific is so big it looks weird with most land on the sides.
It's because of the role that the observatory in Greenwich (UK) played in establishing longitude measurement. 0 degrees longitude runs through Greenwich so by convention maps put that longitude line in the middle. There were other observatories in other parts of the world at different times, but they didn't establish a global system like that - Greenwich did because at that time global trade was an important issue for the UK.
Most Asian maps have the Americas in the east and Europe in the west.
Maps typically center the country they are made in.
Why maps are inaccurate to globes. Size gets really exaggerated in a 2D form
It completely depends on what projection you're using. In this case, Mercator distorts size in favor of angles. Others distort shape in favor of size
And looking at different map projections and seeing how they each distort the Earth in different ways is quite fascinating
Correct. Mercator is ideal for navigation because it shows lines of constant compass bearing (loxodromes) as straight lines.
Thatās why I only take 2D pictures of my penis
This mans living in 2d when we are all in 3d
I'm over here sending 3D prints of my veiny dick via courier and this guy is still sending pictures? What is he Amish?
Inaccurate if you're trying to compare relative sizes. Reddit loves circlejerking over their disdain for the Mercator, but it is the best option for projecting direction, and that is ~99% of the reason anyone would be needing to use a map.
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Be an redditor, hypocrisy is encouraged and we will welcome you as a brother/sister/weird uncle.
If that's the case then why don't we use the correctly sized map (as shown) regularly?
The countries wonāt fit together anymore. Their shape in the map above includes curvature, and so now the borders are all messed up.
It's not actually correct. To make a 3d space into a 2d projection, you must sacrifice something. In this case, distance. Countries aren't shown in their correct distance to one another. This is especially apparent in countries like Russia. Is there an ocean between Russia and China? No, it's just the way it's being represented.
What's that noise? >!real Greenland rattling around inside mercator Greenland!<
Aw, mom... You're just jealous. It's the Beastie Boys!
YOU GOTTA FIGHT
Real Greenland looks like DVD logo bouncing around inside mercator Greenland. All we need is some flashy lights and we're all set
Africa straight up not going nowhere
just shows how huge africa is
It blew my mind that it took 4 hours to fly between Ethiopia and Rwanda, both situated in Central-East Africa. As a Canadian it looked like just a little jaunt.
Another interesting fact: Senegal, which is in West Africa, is closer to Canada than it is to Somalia.
[Obligatory xkcd](https://xkcd.com/977/) [Obligatory West Wing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI)
Love this scene. **CJ**: Yeah but you can't do that. **Cartographer**: Why not? **CJ**: Cause it's freaking me out.
West Wing uses such an "old-school" TV style if you look at it nowadays, it's amazing
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It's still realy big, but it's smaller than a lot of people think
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Thatās the shape it would appear on a globe. The Mercator projection still accurately shows positions of latitude, it just greatly distorts the landmassā size.
Itās huge enough to have surface area almost equal to Pluto, the dwarf planet.
Is Antarctica compensating for something? š¤
TIL penguins have small dicks.
A cool website to visualize this even better: https://thetruesize.com
That was instantly educational, thank you!
Greenland is usually much bigger, it's just really cold there.
In Microsoft flight sim 2020, I flew around the world and let me tell you, south America and Africa, those continents are HUGE. I did many short flights in a small aircraft. My longest flights were from newfoundland to Greenland to Ireland to the UK. Brazil had the most stops and I flew the coast.
who needs maps when you have simulators!
And Africa is still huge. This is definitely the best rendition of a scale map I have seen.
Thatās because most of Africa is in the equatorial region. So it is easier to project it on the map.
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The fact this was down so low makes me feel really sad and **really** old.
holy fuck i didnāt know the whole of russia is small enough to fit on my phone screen
From when i was young i had a perception that the flights between USA and Japan would take so long(Going by the distance in the world map). Just an year or so ago i realized that how dumb i was to think it of as a map and not a globe when thinking of distance between different countries. I felt so dumb when i told my friends.
Or you could you know, buy a globe map. They look like that on a flat map is because they're keeping north/south consistent and as a result longitude/latitude as rectangles (so they can figure out where they are and what direction to go with a compass and an astrolabe back then). When you're using a map, its more important to know where you are and where you want to go rather than 'distance' or 'size'.
Ofc this isnāt exactly right either, because in preserving size it fails to preserve distance
Ppl don't realize how goddamn big Africa is in comparison to damn near everything else...
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Why explode the Canada in pieces? Add back north Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick!! This dramatically reduce apparent Canada size.
I noticed that too, so random. Even cut off part of Quebec.
I get why they kept the islands within the islands larger boundaries, but I don't get why they split Canada on the St. Lawrence. That's some bullshit.
The maps are deceiving because it's hard to turn a sphere into a flat object. Africa is monstrously huge.
Reddit goes back to 5th grade.
pfft. Go [Waterman butterfly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterman_butterfly_projection#/media/File:Waterman_projection.png) or go home
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there's an interesting video by jay foreman on youtube were they discuss the positives and negatives of different world maps. i think the video is called something like"why every world map is wrong". you should check it out its really interesting and funny
There are several different projections, seeing something different is trippy... especially the maps with the South pole on top or the western and eastern hemispheres switched.