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The actual size of countries

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Wolf of X2 年前

Actual sizes of countries due to the “Mercator-Effect” for all the people that get confused about why Greenland is not a continent. If you are new to this, google: “Mercator-Effect” or “Mercator-Projection” Mercator is a fantastic projection. People give it loads of hate, but it's actually brilliant. We just use it for the wrong things. Mercator was designed for shipping lanes. It correctly allows you to draw a straight line from one port to another, follow that line, and end up in the right place. In the age of sail, this was a fantastic invention. Unfortunately we use it for general mapping purposes nowadays... Which it's terrible for... But it was never designed for this purpose. Given that very few of us are navigating a ship nowadays... Winkel-Tripel or even Authagraph seem like a better option (though the latter is culturally alien to most of us).

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Civixplorer2 年前

The Mercator projection distorts the real size of countries 👇

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dpat2 年前

American students

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Another Perspective2 年前

The True Size of Africa

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Josh Thompson2 年前

It’s not a conspiracy, it’s what happens when you put a globe on a flat piece of paper

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Stoic Ronin2 年前

Trying to view a 3D object in 2D, they won’t be the same… and that doesn’t mean someone is trying to trick you for some nefarious reasons 😒

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UNSANCTIONED2 年前

This is one of the best MCU speech to be ever written

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#NaMo Again 🚩2 年前

Cat amazing reflex

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The Random Guy2 年前

How governments work! 😂

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Amazing Video2 年前

This pool design is amazing! 👏

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