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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia looks Mercator'd. Would be better if they' picked a projection to get a truer shape of Russia to overlay.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Comparing a continent against countries...

How is this supposed to be informative?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Was going to say the same thing. How’s north America compare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right? This isn’t a good one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's of course totally accidental that the Mercator projection was chosen for the world map, that makes Africa look much smaller compared to other countries.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was because of its use in with constant straight lines and angles could be used for travel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In talking about the world map specifically. Nobody would use that for plotting a course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can only go by what these articles claim---that that projection is used for plotting/planning. https://www.britannica.com/science/Mercator-projection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

30Mm^2^ is dam large.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago