- cross-posted to:
- geography@mander.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- geography@mander.xyz
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“excluding Russia”
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includes Russia
I’m confused.
Or was there a text saying something like “all can fit in together, except Russia?”
Update. Didn’t see the asterisk near the word Europe, was confused.
It’s basically to make it clear and avoid confusion which can arise, e.g. by including only the European part of russia, as the Europe-Asia border is not uniquely defined.
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Interactive tool: thetruesize.com.
It’s fun to see how the shapes and areas change while moved around and being reprojected.
I’m also interested in the true size comparison without the skewed size that occurs further and further from the equator when you make a flat, rectangular map from a sphere.
I’m not sure, but I assume they’ve used some equal-area projection for the representation, so its angles are skewed, not the size.
Or just scaled the country images to match land area?
On thetruesize.com they seem to use some equal-angle projection and the countries are reprojected while being moved. There, e.g. russia doesn’t seem to be that narrow when placed on top of Africa.
URL doesn’t work for me
Thx. I’ve corrected it.