The Mercator map , created in 1596 to aid sailors sail , is also why so many masses think Greenland is big than China . Now you’re able to well appreciate how two - dimensional map mess with geography , thanks to a land site that lets you move the pole to anywhere in the world .
The Mercator belongs to a kin of maps known as “ compromise sound projection , ” so - call in for their inclination to give thing like accurate geographic size and flesh in favour of overnice , straight channel . Programmer Drew Roos has createdan interactive visualizationof the utmost distortions of the Mercator projection . “ The conclusion resolution , ” he order , “ is a single mathematical function cover the entire surface of the Earth , yet containing both human exfoliation and globular scale . ” The map pictured above establish the world with the pole shifted to where it rightly belongs : Wrigley Field in Chicago .
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-map-projections-warp-your-understanding-of-1499317119
you’re able to attempt out the visualization for yourself , atDrew Roos ’ website .
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