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They would be.. except Russia and Canada are shrunken on most world or US/Europe maps because of the distortion from the map projection. Yet another mapmakers c
by zurn 11y ago
They would be.. except Russia and Canada are shrunken on most world or US/Europe maps because of the distortion from the map projection. Yet another mapmakers conspiracy.
(everything else that's far from the map center is of course also affected this way)
- kbart 11y agoMap making is hard. You can't transfer spherical world to a flat paper sheet/screen without distorting it in one way or another. There was an article not long ago here in HN about this problem: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/google-maps-gets-africa-wrong http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/google-maps-get...
- qq66 11y agoDoesn't the commonly used Mercator projection make polar regions seem larger than normal? Causing Greenland to seem enormous?
- zurn 11y agoShh!