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Are the scale of continents right? Because Australia looks almost bigger than Europe, and Africa looks many times bigger than Europe.
by cLeEOGPw 13y ago
Are the scale of continents right? Because Australia looks almost bigger than Europe, and Africa looks many times bigger than Europe.
- edoloughlin 13y agoAfrica is much larger than you expect if you grew up looking at Mercator projections: http://brucemctague.com/tag/illusion-of-mercator-projections http://brucemctague.com/tag/illusion-of-mercator-projections
- jboynyc 13y agoThe true size of Africa: http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/ http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/18/true-size-of-africa/ The historian Marshall Hodgson referred to the Mercator projection as the "Jim Crow projection." This is why.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoI found my mistake. When looking at Europe for some reason I mentally subtracted first the Scandinavia and then Russia, that's why it seemed so tiny. Looking at wiki I can see Africa is only 3 times larger than Europe, which is what I would have expected.
- mxfh 13y agoTry rotating this :) http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/#GRL http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/#GRL