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    Eine gute Visualisierung der Skalenverzerrung in der Mercator-Projektion


    Diese Art des Vergleichs zeigt deutlich, wie die am häufigsten verwendete Kartenprojektion, die Mercator-Projektion, die wahren Größen der Kontinente erheblich verzerrt.

    Im Bild misst eine Linie durch Eurasien etwa 6.400 km, während eine Linie durch Afrika etwa 7.200 km erreicht. Mit anderen Worten: Obwohl Afrika auf herkömmlichen Karten oft kleiner erscheint, kann es je nach Vergleich tatsächlich größer sein.

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    3. okarox on

      No, this has nothing to do with the Mercator projection. It just shows that the earth is not flat. If you actually measured Russia like shows it would be over 8000 km. The s the stated distance is the great circle distance.

    4. BionicBananas on

      Ah, is it time for the weekly „*Did you know Mercator projection distorts distances??? Look how big Africa and how small Greenland actually are.*“ post?

    5. Gentle-Giant23 on

      What is the fascination with the Mercator Projection that causes this map, or variations of it, to be posted here every couple of days?

    6. wasteknotwantknot on

      Mercator doesn’t squish horizontally, just vertically. This is incorrect.

    8. SherbertMindless8205 on

      It’s wrong though, that Russian line is way longer than 6400km. The distance between those two points is probably only that distance, but it’s because Russia goes more then half way around the northern hemisphere and the shortest distance between those two points is over the North Pole.

      Driving along that line in the image, it would be around 9000km

    11. Anderopolis on

      Stop it! 

      This has nothing to do with mercator, and everything to do with you people being too stupid to understand those lines have nothing to do with the number written next to them because the Earth is FUCKING ROUND. 

      Why on earth does this need to be posted multiple times a day because you are too imbecilic to understand this? 

    12. 343CreeperMaster on

      we really do need a ‚don’t make me tap the sign‘ for Mercator projection and why it has become so established in terms of what projections are used for maps (navigational purposes)

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