#Mercator projection

[mapsontheweb]

Mercator Projection but if east was on top (Transverse Mercator Projection).

[sandumilfshou]

i just used that interactive true size map to actually see how big new zealand is compared to other countries and uhhhhh

the answer is... pretty fucking huge???????

[victusinveritas]

A line of Colorados from the Equator to the North Pole using the Mercator projection.

[antikate]

Me: I’m definitely not neurodivergent I don’t get fixated on things

Also me: so, let me tell you about why the Mercator projection is bad and maybe even colonialist but we keep it anyway because maths

[kentucky-fried-thea]

reblog to increase the sample size!

[sodiumisnearlymyname]

I don't think people (me) realise how fucking big Indonesia is. We hear a lot of examples of how bad the Mercator projection is but this is still the first time I realised. I had to go to landscape mode or the country wouldn't fit. And the pink shape in the 2nd and 3rd pictures is China.

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

[outragedtortilla]

mercator projection

[moznohayanie]

世界地図の見方を変えると少し変わった世界が見えてくる

かなり印象違ってきます。アフリカでっかい！

[allgremlinart]

Waterman Butterfly version of the atla world map when

[fictionadventurer]

I should have known that William Goldman had already written the perfect summary of the Imaginary Book Recs project.

"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."

[mapsontheweb]

Greenland size deformation in Mercator map compared to South America

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

I think everyone should own a globe and look at that when thinking about country size and geography bc literally every flat map projection has to make choices for its purpose to turn a three dimensional planet into a flat sheet. It is exceptionally unfortunate that the Mercator projection- designed for MARITIME NAVIGATION- ended up on the walls of classrooms as the geography many learned. The Mercator projection was designed for easily sailing without as much regard for scale and stretching of countries.

[zx-yourmother-xz]

8 hours of sleep isnt enough i need them t9 remove my brain lay it flat peel it like an oranhe lay it out like the mercator projection wnd run a steam roller pver it

[sappymix1]

wait until anon goes to school and discovers how distorted maps is because the earth is a sphere so a rectangular projection heavily distorts everything the closer it gets to the poles (they failed geometry and geography)

to be fair alaska actually has the opposite problem where it looks way smaller than it is due to it being sm closer to the north pole but anon is still wrong 😭

[ceescedasticity]

I will be ignoring this issue going forward but like

Changing of the world

Did the northern/southern extremes get compressed or did the middle get expanded?

I'd have to look stuff up and do math to be sure but I feel like there would be A NOTICEABLE IMPACT one way or the other