This lets me share one of my all time favorite TV moments.
https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?feature=shared
Yeah, if you look at measures of land area Africa is bigger than North America by like 2.3 million square miles but it doesn't look that way on a Mercator Projection map.
On the subject of maps, I don't like how South-up orientation maps are often called "upside-down maps" because there's no such thing. It's long held convention to orient maps with North at the top but a South-up map is just as valid a representation of the Earth's surface. We're just not accustomed to visualizing it that way.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2e415a93.jpg
Is this not common sense? I leaned this in elementaryIf I did I must've forgotten about it, lol. I think it's starting to ring a bell now that I've learned about it before.
Yeah, if you look at measures of land area Africa is bigger than North America by like 2.3 million square miles but it doesn't look that way on a Mercator Projection map.
On the subject of maps, I don't like how South-up orientation maps are often called "upside-down maps" because there's no such thing. It's long held convention to orient maps with North at the top but a South-up map is just as valid a representation of the Earth's surface. We're just not accustomed to visualizing it that way.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2e415a93.jpg
Yeah, if you look at measures of land area Africa is bigger than North America by like 2.3 million square miles but it doesn't look that way on a Mercator Projection map.map men has a video on that too!
On the subject of maps, I don't like how South-up orientation maps are often called "upside-down maps" because there's no such thing. It's long held convention to orient maps with North at the top but a South-up map is just as valid a representation of the Earth's surface. We're just not accustomed to visualizing it that way.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2e415a93.jpg
Is this not common sense? I leaned this in elementaryI think everyone is kinda-sorta aware of the distortion but don't really realize the amount of distortion present.