Okay so Africa is a shower, and other places are mostly a grower
Fiftysecond52nd on
Africa doesn’t lie
LifeAcanthopterygii6 on
Warm water vs cold water.
SinisterDetection on
Cold weather causes shrinkage, this is nothing new
ComprehensiveTax7 on
I feel that I have to speak up for Mercator projection before a terrible accident happens.
It is only a matter of time until someone picks up a true size of countries map and decides to sail off directly south west from chile and just completely sails off the map and planet…
Not only size is important the direction and curvature also matters!
Bettlejuic3 on
15 minutes in and 4 out of 5 comments are penis jokes
Reden-Orvillebacher on
Some people’s egos also use Mercator projection.
peet192 on
Russia is still the largest country in the world in pure numbers though.
finisdiem on
I actually love this
Weekly_Sort147 on
Africa and Brazil with big d energy.
quasar_1618 on
It would be cool one day to see one of these that rescales the further north parts of large countries more than the south parts. This seems to scale each country uniformly by some value, presumably based on the average latitude of the country? You can see this having weird effects for large countries such as Canada- notice how Canad’s southern border gets way smaller than the US northern border, despite the fact that these are, of course, the same physical line.
paco-ramon on
When I was a kid, I tought half the planet was antartica.
Thefirstargonaut on
Why does Australia shrink more than Africa? They are at the same latitudes.
DiminutiveChungus on
r/weknowaboutmercator
JimicahP on
I like how every large country in the world shrinks substantially, except for Brazil who’s just like “Yeah bitch, I’m big, what of it?”
Wayss37 on
Didn’t know the continents „actually“ fit in a phone screen
Mr_Bombastic_Ro on
there would be a lot less flat earthers talking about ice walls if they only printed accurate maps—and just to field any obvious answers, I know about the inherent problems of translating 3D to 2D but that does not make my first statement less true, just less attainable. Have a great day!
The size différence are crazy and it make it seem as if theres so much more water too
simplepimple2025 on
There should be a rule against posting this shit repeatedly.
B3tcrypt on
Is Greenland really that far from Canada?
Prestigious_Emu6039 on
Boring but accurate observation. Any time you try to flatten a sphere onto a 2D surface, like a paper map, you have to distort something(size, shape, distance, or direction).
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Okay so Africa is a shower, and other places are mostly a grower
Africa doesn’t lie
Warm water vs cold water.
Cold weather causes shrinkage, this is nothing new
I feel that I have to speak up for Mercator projection before a terrible accident happens.
It is only a matter of time until someone picks up a true size of countries map and decides to sail off directly south west from chile and just completely sails off the map and planet…
Not only size is important the direction and curvature also matters!
15 minutes in and 4 out of 5 comments are penis jokes
Some people’s egos also use Mercator projection.
Russia is still the largest country in the world in pure numbers though.
I actually love this
Africa and Brazil with big d energy.
It would be cool one day to see one of these that rescales the further north parts of large countries more than the south parts. This seems to scale each country uniformly by some value, presumably based on the average latitude of the country? You can see this having weird effects for large countries such as Canada- notice how Canad’s southern border gets way smaller than the US northern border, despite the fact that these are, of course, the same physical line.
When I was a kid, I tought half the planet was antartica.
Why does Australia shrink more than Africa? They are at the same latitudes.
r/weknowaboutmercator
I like how every large country in the world shrinks substantially, except for Brazil who’s just like “Yeah bitch, I’m big, what of it?”
Didn’t know the continents „actually“ fit in a phone screen
there would be a lot less flat earthers talking about ice walls if they only printed accurate maps—and just to field any obvious answers, I know about the inherent problems of translating 3D to 2D but that does not make my first statement less true, just less attainable. Have a great day!
The true size of Africa is so unbelievable
New Zealand just wanted to be on the map
Why do we keep seeing this kind of thing when actual [equal-area maps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-area_projection) exist?
The size différence are crazy and it make it seem as if theres so much more water too
There should be a rule against posting this shit repeatedly.
Is Greenland really that far from Canada?
Boring but accurate observation. Any time you try to flatten a sphere onto a 2D surface, like a paper map, you have to distort something(size, shape, distance, or direction).