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Interesting this came up today. I was looking at maps of Greenland and then became reminded of how most of the maps we normally look at are wrong. (proportion-
by theklub 11y ago
Interesting this came up today. I was looking at maps of Greenland and then became reminded of how most of the maps we normally look at are wrong. (proportion-wise) Including the one in the article. Here is a Peter's map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection
My point is Africa is huge.
- vlehto 11y agoThat's wrong too in a way. Projections are always compromises. I prefer waterman butterfly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterman_butterfly_projection#/media/File:Waterman_projection_%28Pacific_centered%29.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterman_butterfly_projection#...
- theklub 11y agoI like that one too, Africa looks even bigger there.
- helb 11y agoPerhaps you've already seen it, but this is a nice comparison – http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html
- toomuchtodo 11y agoThanks for sharing this, I had never seen it. I'm astounded that you can fit the entire US in Africa and still have room left over.
- Shorel 11y agoWe have WebGL now, all maps could be rotating spheres if we cared about it.
- anonymfus 11y agoThe strange thing is that on many maps rotating sphere is implemented for satellite view but switching to actual map also means switching to Merkator.