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I never knew the world map was actually like this
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vas_a_morir
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Terranigma. Have fun.
ElectricBlue187
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Sexiest map.
Best map
speculawyer
Member
You've never seen a globe?
This.
sharkmuncher
Member
USGS will send you maps of anywhere in the US at a variety of sizes for relatively cheap.
Also,
http://www.bigmapblog.com/
I want a game of Civ 5 in that.. hmm..
Pristine_Condition
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I'm over 40, and have a nephew who was completely obsessed with maps as a kid (so obsessed in fact that he is now an undergrad University student majoring in Geography,) and this is the first time I've seen a map split that way. If it's one of the more conventional projections, it's always split in the Pacific Ocean.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
I just want a map where the world is unrolled without the poles at the top of bottom. Give me one with the north and south poles on the right and left sides, but still with the same width of a normal map, not tall like that timezone one. Give me one where the poles aren't on the boundaries at all! Give me some CRAZY SHIT.
scar tissue
Banned
So on a mercator map, a Kilometer in africa is longer than a Kilometer in Europe?
I never thought about it, but it makes perfect Sense if you Look at a globe.
I kinda want a Globe now, any recommendations?
I never thought about it, but it makes perfect Sense if you Look at a globe.
I kinda want a Globe now, any recommendations?
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Mercator remains popular because it is actually very good for navigation purposes. Aviation also uses the Lambert conic projection. Right angles are great for navigation purposes.
Winterfang
Banned
If I'm not mistaken, this kind of map is use in the US to show travel routes.
I see what you did there
On the contrary, its usually much smaller than Canada, although it shouldn't be that much smaller. Mercator stretches out the stuff at the poles more, making Canada look ridiculously big. For instance, look at Greenland on a Mercator map. It looks enormous. But its really only slightly larger than Mexico in reality.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Peters' Projection is not very accurate either.
Goldrusher
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That'as the only difference I see as well. I really don't get the difference in perception here.
How was 0 degrees longitude decided, do you think?
You have to realize something's wrong with Mercator when you see Greenland is almost the size of Africa.
There is not a map that can show the entire world without any sort of distortion. Just the globes, of course, that's why they are so cool. Mercator always shows Greenland, Canada, Russia and Alaska much much bigger than they really are.
There is not a map that can show the entire world without any sort of distortion. Just the globes, of course, that's why they are so cool. Mercator always shows Greenland, Canada, Russia and Alaska much much bigger than they really are.
Does it matter now?
I'll take your word for it I guess, but Canada and Russia seem way too small.
Basically this. I mean, throughout American school we weren't taught this directly, but I could eventually figure it out. I wasn't taught with just one map but with several, including globes (possibly because being in a military family moved me to many different schools).
As soon as American kids get taught Columbus they get taught the concept of a round world and how that differs from what's displayed on a flap map.
Does it really matter whether the US is in the middle or Australia?
Just saying, even the longitude system was based on 'western' centrism.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
That is pretty neat.Meh, if you want to compare continent sizes etc., this is pretty much the only way to represent the actual land mass on a 2D plane:
Yea, but remember Alaska.
China is about 500,000sq miles bigger than the continental US.
Peters Projection flipped is truly the best map.
There is absolutely no reason why the map shouldn't be that way up. It is neither right nor wrong.
It would totally make the song "Land Down Under" make no sense anymore, so thats a pretty big reason.
Looks kind of like Canada is falling apart
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Bullshit. It's never been that bad.
XANDER CAGE
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Mostly I remember that being the smuggest episode of The West Wing, and that's saying something.
Globes all the way!
Globes all the way!
The Dutch Slayer
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A must see and a must post:
West Wing - Why are we changing maps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
West Wing - Why are we changing maps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
This scares me for some reason.
Imagine the highways on this:
And this, this is perfect. I've always looked at maps and imagined what it'd look like if land was water and water was land. This just makes it way easier and looks 10 times cooler. Your mind still tries to see the oceans as continents, but when it really does finally click, you see a completely different earth and it's amazing.
Rocket Scientist
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First they came for God, and I was silent because I did not believe in god. Then they came for Pluto, which made me sad but I could survive. Now however they've come for my world and I cannot love in a different world than the one I've known for all my life! Resist comrades, resist!
God damn science shattering world views since whenever it was. Fuck science!
God damn science shattering world views since whenever it was. Fuck science!
I get a kick out of the maps that have crazy sea monsters roaming around.
SolidusDave
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"Can we get there?"
"Yes, but unfortunately there's this dirty great sea monster in the way."
Imagine the highways on this:
Gotta love the Panama bridge.
The US is actually exactly where the Sahara is so it'd be nothing but sand
Wouldnt the most accurate map be the one that properly depicts total area?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
Cause that peter map makes northern countries look tiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
Cause that peter map makes northern countries look tiny.
Pretty much this, it looks so cool, yet it's no different really.
I think my mind is blown more by the fact that pretty accurate maps were made when cartographers had nothing but boats to go on. I do not for the life of me understand how they put world maps together? Can someone explain?
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
It's called a "Globe"
RustyNails
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Wasn't Mercator projection racist in origin? It was created to make Africa smaller in size than it really is in comparison to North America. At least that's what I learned in my undergrad class.
lastplayed
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We covered all the different map types and their inaccuracies very early on in school here. It's just one of those things I've always known.
SquiddyCracker
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Imagine the highways on this:
so awesome!
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