Yeah, I just looked up the approximate width of Patagonia, then compared it with distances I'm familiar with in my state. Patagonia looks about twice as big as it actually is.Yes, which is why Canada looks way bigger than it is on the Mercator projection, and why Antarctica looks ridiculously enormous.
If you go to the website @Occams Barber linked to, you can select and move a country around and see how it grows and shrinks based on its distance from the equator.
-CryptoLutheran
Great another image of Australia with the island of Tasmania missing.Does it?
But those aren't pictures of the whole earth.
What other delusions am I laboring under!?
Wikipedia says the total area of Australia is 2,969,907 square miles, and the total area of Greenland is 836,330 square miles. So Australia is well over three times bigger, yet when you look at the Google Earth image or a map it looks the opposite. It looks like you could fit 3 or 4 Australias into Greenland.
What am I missing here?
But those aren't pictures of the whole earth.
It's pretty strange to see the true sizes compared - Australia and USA are roughly comparable, and Russia is roughly twice their area...I'd always heard that there were visual problems with maps, but I never knew the size difference had to be so extreme. Representing a thing as 3 times bigger than another, when it is actually 3 times smaller, seems not just a distortion, but an alternate reality, lol.
Needless to say, this thread has been quite traumatizing to me. My whole life I've believed in the fact that Greenland was the size of Africa, and I behaved accordingly. What other delusions am I laboring under!? My perception of reality is shattered. The walls of my life are crumbling around me. I'm calling my lawyer. I'm going to sue Rand McNally for infliction of emotional distress.
The soccer ball gave me an idea. What would a soccer ball look like in different projections? Sounds like a lot of work, but this is the internet and someone has already done it.
Obviously, all the black spots are the same size, but here's a Mercator soccer ball:
You can't get a single picture of the 'whole' Earth since half the Earth will always be facing away from you.
Thank you Messrs. Obvious. But the thread's about map-making, not photography.The Earth is sorta ball-shaped, so satellites can only see about half of the surface at a time.
Thank you Messrs. Obvious. But the thread's about map-making, not photography.
But those aren't pictures of the whole earth.
Thank you Messrs. Obvious. But the thread's about map-making, not photography.
The medical solution for delusion is to go on a vacation to places such as Greenland or Australia.Needless to say, this thread has been quite traumatizing to me. My whole life I've believed in the fact that Greenland was the size of Africa, and I behaved accordingly. What other delusions am I laboring under!?.
What other delusions am I laboring under!?
Wikipedia says the total area of Australia is 2,969,907 square miles, and the total area of Greenland is 836,330 square miles. So Australia is well over three times bigger, yet when you look at the Google Earth image or a map it looks the opposite. It looks like you could fit 3 or 4 Australias into Greenland.
What am I missing here?
Yeah when I was a kid and would fly from San Fran to London I was always amazed to learn we'd fly over the arctic.Try this. Get a ruler and draw a proposed shortest
airline route from LA to Hong Kong on your map.
Then take a string and find the shortest route,
on a globe.
Yeah when I was a kid and would fly from San Fran to London I was always amazed to learn we'd fly over the arctic.
I don't think that. I think you both pretended to assume I was talking about photography. But I could be wrong.In post #18 you said this in response @essentialsaltes post showing you satellite pictures of the Earth
Why do you think we both assumed you were talking about photography ('pictures')?
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