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I really enjoy this! I wish it would also support cities, it would help me get a better sense of the size of a city to compare it to one I'm familiar with alrea
by fhennig 1y ago
I really enjoy this! I wish it would also support cities, it would help me get a better sense of the size of a city to compare it to one I'm familiar with already. But I guess city limits are less well defined that country limits. Anyway, great project!
- xiconfjs 1y ago+1 for cities
- lpribis 1y agoUse this site for that https://acme.com/same_scale/ https://acme.com/same_scale/. It lets you compare any two map views at the same scale.
- zamadatix 1y agoThat site only seems lock the zoom value of the two maps together, not correct for distortions. E.g. zoom in on Svalbard on one side and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the other. Svalbard appears larger despite being many times smaller. This means if you zoom into Longyearbyen it will appear several times larger than it should compared to say Kinshasa. Longyearbyen is a pathological example but it's quite easy to end up thinking a city in the UK is ~1.75 linearly and ~3x by area compared to one on the equator using this site.
- volemo 1y agoSurely any city is small enough that projection distortion is negligible? So you can just open cities on two maps side by side and zoom in/out till the scales are equal.
- triceratops 1y agoI wish it would support sub-national entities (states, provinces, territories) outside of the US too. US-state-only support is kinda frustrating.
- edelans 1y agosame here, I was looking for a tool that does exactly that a few weeks ago. Ended up just comparing 2 google maps with same zoom level, but it's not practical at all. Open to any suggestion you may have!