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www.thetruesize.com is a fun interactive website for seeing how Mercator maps lie.
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What’s your preferred projection?
To say that Mercator “lies” is to misrepresent the complications of projecting a 3 dimensional object onto a 2 dimensional surface. All projections “lie” in this sense because they’re simplifications of reality - that’s what a map is.
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this video is based on the comic: it’s an animation on how each projection would change when shifted.
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I think the contiguous US like in the picture is more like 8m km² isn’t it? 9.8 must be counting Alaska, Hawaii and maybe the territories.
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All those countries are in-continent.
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As opposed to the False Size of Africa
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I mean, it’s a continent
