The Cartographers for Social Equality will be pleased!
?referring_host=RedditHe’s a traitor.
Ew, everything at the equator is so skinny.
IRL Africa is about as wide as it’s tall; it’s as far from Benghazi to Cape Town as from the mouth of the Gambia to the tip of the Horn of Africa, but on this map it’s around a 2:3 ratio.
Ironically, the most natural-looking part of this map is Europe. All other landmasses are either at a latitude that stretches the proportions or at a longitude that skews them.
Thanks I hate it already.
Well there is no way to preserve the scale of all land masses properly since you’re projecting a 3D object onto a 2D plane. This projection at least partially addresses the issue of land masses near the poles being away to big than they actually are. I feel geographically Europe is in a position where the distortions are minimized, at least in the case of projections that don’t have weird layouts.
Behrmann would make a lot more sense. The average person lives at 30 degrees latitude, and it works at all longitudes.
If you’re in the 6% of the population that lives above 45 degrees latitude, I agree the distortion kind of sucks, so please look at the flag of the United Nations until you feel better.
Winkel Tripel best projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection
Robinson projection prettiest projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_projection
On standard flat maps, Greenland often appears around the same size as Africa. Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland. Countries like Canada and Russia also look much larger than they actually are. I didn’t realize it for a long time either that many flat maps merely tried to flatten a 3D globe onto a 2D surface.
Not just many. Literally all flat maps of the Earth try to flatten a globe onto a 2d surface. That is the task of making a flat map representing the Earth.
Every projection from a 3d globe to a flat 2d representation will introduce distortion of some kind. You can get accurate directions, or accurate land areas, or a nice rectangular coordinate grid for latitude and longitude, but you can’t get them all at once.
