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Wow, I thought China was much larger than America(as in much much larger); Africa though I already knew was a fucking giant. Accurate maps of the globe are enl
by ZoF 13y ago
Wow, I thought China was much larger than America(as in much much larger); Africa though I already knew was a fucking giant.
Accurate maps of the globe are enlightening.
- zokier 13y ago> Accurate maps of the globe are enlightening. Despite its shortcomings I'd argue that Mercator projection maps (in general) are accurate.
- judk 13y agoMercator is conformal. Angles are accurate, that's all. It provides accurate navigation, which is great if you are planning a boat trip with middle-ages technology, but not fit for any other purpose.
- zokier 13y agoThat was kinda my point; unqualified "accuracy" is not an useful metric for evaluating map projections, as most of them are accurate in one way or another (and inaccurate in other ways). Arguably the "best" (general purpose) projections are the least "accurate" ones because they use a compromises between different projections to make a visually appealing map.
- Aloisius 13y agoChina, the US and Canada are all nearly the same size (9.5 million, 9.1 million and 9 million km^2, respectively). Russia on the other hand is significantly bigger (16.3 million km^2) - bigger than even Antarctica (14 million km^2).
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- ska 13y agoAre you sure of those numbers? Sources I've seen has the area of Canada larger than that of the US, and US close to that of China. Russia is significantly bigger, as you note.
- johnsonman 13y agoWikipedia says 9.6, 9.8, and 10.0 million km^2 respectively. Do these numbers include something (e.g. water) that the numbers you quoted don't? (They also peg Russia at 17.0 million km^2)
- Aloisius 13y agoThe numbers are land-only, but there are multiple conflicting ways of calculating it often due to land disputes. For instance, Taiwan/Tibet/etc. wrt China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_area_%28graphical%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_area...