Saturday, December 18, 2021

You Learn Something New Every Day.... Mercator Projection Map

 

 I don't remember learning about this back when I was in school.

 

Mercator Projection  mapping inflates the sizes of land masses away from the equator.





Here's an interesting article about the misconceptions of the Mercator map 


and on this website, you can type in the name of a country and drag and drop it to compare

the size of it to other countries.


TRUE SIZE<<<

4 comments:

  1. Funny, I learned that in Third Grade Geography back in 1960. Thank you Sister Evelyn.

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  2. Yep. That's why teachers back in the 1950s and 1960s showed us a flipping globe to illustrate the difference. The issue is not some plot by whatever supremacists, but more likely lazy "educators."

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  3. Kinda makes you wonder how a small country like England came to rule a large portion of the world in the 18th and 19th century.

    Nemo

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  4. So here is a funny one for you. I am on my work computer, and I click on the link to Google maps to see how it has changed. It has several places I have been to marked as "favorites". So Google knows where you have been, and keeps track of that for "you" or perhaps someone who could have an interest in you.
    I am sure this information would never, ever, be used inappropriately, right? Or to sell you stuff, or to sell your travel information, or anything like that. Right?

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