Map found via reddit, click for larger versionWhile it's well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how
Peters Projection Map The truth is that the map could have been created with any number of different distortions. Take the Galls-Peters map projection, for example (shown below). This map projection chooses to distort the distances rather than the relative sizes of the countries. No, Maps Don...
Mercator’s greatest achievement is that he created a trustworthy image of the Earth, while Wright takes credit for providing mathematical calculations of the projection, by creating a table and calculating the coefficients of the scale change for each degree of increasing latitude at the corresponding...
Previously:Antique Globes, Virtual and Real. SMBC Takes the Mercator Projection into Its Own Hands Published on27 February 2020byJonathan Crowe From “Mercator”,SMBC, 24 Feb 2020. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s take on the Mercator projectionis … not what you’d expect. The punch line ...
The primary flaw in a Mercator map projection is the prioritization of shape over size, resulting in some countries looking dramatically larger on a Mercator map projection than they are in real life. What is the meaning of Gnomonic? The meaning of Gnomonic means "relating to a sundial." A...
As it shows, Greenland is the country that has the largest percent difference between its apparent size in a Mercator projection and it’s real size (it’s only about 1/4 of the apparent size). And Russia is the country with the largest absolute difference between these two sizes. ...