We literally made a whole video about this.

FYI: The gentleman in the West Wing clip incorrectly refers to Mercator as German when he was, in fact, Flemish. We have alerted Josh Lyman and C.J. Cregg.

"Creates an inflated sense of importance for the Global North" You don't say!!!!

Using maps to teach point of view in AP Seminar is a gamechanger. My students' do a head shake when I introduce "upside down maps." They go running to research Australia. #APSeminar

Merkator map isn't "wrong". It's different. There are different projections of a globe to the flat maps for different reasons. Neither one is 100% accurate -- it's impossible. Merkator is useful in some situations, but you may prefer other projections. No enforcing there.

@MerriamWebster These so called “activists” are so pathetic. What the hell does the SIZE of your continent have anything to do with dignity and pride? The only factor that matters is accuracy. If the newer map is more accurate than that’s what should become accepted. Period

That is such a "last century" issue. The full 3D Google Earth was launched by Google in June 2005, with the web version launched on April 18, 2017.

Trump will never accept Africa is bigger than most continents put together.

LOVE that you have accurate captions!

A good feature of conformal map projections like Mercator is that they don’t distort angles, and proportions get closer and closer to correct the more you zoom in. There are other conformal maps they could use that don’t distort continent sizes so badly:

So bigotry

Don't apps like google maps resolve this issue by showing the world map as a globe? Who uses wall maps anymore?

Mercator was born in the County of Flanders.

Cool but where's the REAL accurate map? I don't want a comparison map, I want the real one

I somehow recognized John Billingsley's voice in that clip before he appeared.

Can somebody explain to Trump that Greenland is much smaller than he thinks...

Why did y'all cut Asia in half?

Why not base the map on a cube ? And unfold it ? 👀🤔👀🤷‍♀️

“Mercator wasn’t German, he was Flemish. Gerardus Mercator was born Geert or Gerard (De) Kremer (or Cremer) in Rupelmonde, Flanders, a small village to the southwest of Antwerp, which was in the fiefdom of Habsburg Netherlands.”

@MerriamWebster Is this why there is no civilization south of the Equator?

Listen to the American woman talk about Africa! Maybe now they’ll hear it

Thanks for explaining! ☺️

@grok show a real map of the world considering real sizes.

Kweli

Your own video gives numerous reasons why it's just a flawed navigation tool with purpose. As opposed to a calculated insult. Why go there? Just educate ppl on the various versions, their relative pros and cons without adding your opinions on top of them

If you are interested in maps, check and compare different countries to eachother. While there, for fun: grab Greenland and put it over South Affrica. It will blow your mind! And when you have played around enough there, go to :)