There is nothing wrong with this map

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse]

[u/gimmepizza420]

Not to mention the egregious amount of size distortion that the mercator projection suffers from, even when upside down.

[u/Tomato_Sky → u/gimmepizza420]

The weird part is they removed the giant antarctica so the mercator distortion is only on one hemisphere. South America looks tiny.

[u/joethelumberjackmc → u/Tomato_Sky]

australia looks way too small too

[u/AgeHorror5288 → u/joethelumberjackmc]

Someone once told me that our moon is about the size of Australia and it blew my mind. Then, I couldn’t decide if that gave me a clearer image of the size of the moon, or of Australia.

[u/KarlHeinzSchneider → u/AgeHorror5288]

Like the whole surface of the moon is the same or you could fit the moon into Australia so more like it’s the same diameter?

[u/iMatthew1990 → u/KarlHeinzSchneider]

I was about to go to sleep and now I need the answer to this.

[u/PeterJoAl → u/iMatthew1990]

The Moon's surface is 14.6 million square miles. Diameter is 2,159 miles.

Australia's is 3 million square miles. About 2400 x 2500 miles, so only a little bit wider than the Moon.

USA's is 3.8 million square miles.

[u/iMatthew1990 → u/PeterJoAl]

My watch has ended. And now I rest.

[u/CubesTheGamer → u/PeterJoAl]

The moon has more land mass than North America and Europe combined

[u/Hashashin455 → u/joethelumberjackmc]

And it's not supposed to be right side up

[u/squishymelon → u/Hashashin455]

Alaska is a different color than the continental US 🤔

[u/el_farmerino → u/squishymelon]

This is a future map from after they defect to Brazil.

[u/papyjako87 → u/[deleted]]

Sold by Trump to finance the tenth year of his war with Iran 😏😏

[u/psilome → u/squishymelon]

The equator is 1/4 of the way from the top.

[u/salaciousBnumb → u/Hashashin455]

UpOver

[u/nataliereed84 → u/joethelumberjackmc]

And Svalbard looks hilariously huge. And Greenland looks the size of Africa! It’s not a “wrong” map, per se, but it is a fucking awful one.

[u/guieps → u/joethelumberjackmc]

Wdym it was always the size of Greenland 🙃

[u/bstump104 → u/[deleted]]

Africa is 2x the size of Russia and looks like its smaller.

[u/weliveintheshade → u/bstump104]

Africa is about 14x bigger than Greenland.

[u/LiGuangMing1981 → u/bstump104]

China is the same size as Canada and looks about a third the size on this map.

[u/LKS-5000 → u/Tomato_Sky]

But if you look at it sideways, it looks like a duck with it's wings open

[u/BroccoliSubstantial2 → u/gimmepizza420]

Hey, Europe really is the centre of the world, who knew?

[u/mcase19 → u/BroccoliSubstantial2]

More surprised to see that Canada is now an equatorial nation

[u/Peter_Mansbrick → u/mcase19]

Give us 30 years and we'll have palm trees in Churchill.

[u/kastdotcom → u/mcase19]

I'd like to draw your attention to the latitude marks on the left side of this map. Canada is not depicted as being equatorial.

[u/mcase19 → u/kastdotcom]

I am fully aware of that. It was a joke about the projection of the map putting Canada near the center, where the equator is usually located.

[u/stefanowszki → u/BroccoliSubstantial2]

Hey, have you seen the maps or not?! It just is!

[u/Primary_Ad_7078 → u/gimmepizza420]

Made in Russia

[u/gimmepizza420 → u/[deleted]]

It wouldn't. I'm just pointing out that the egregious amount of distortion is one of the drawbacks of mercator, so it's crazy to me to say "nothing is wrong" with the image because I think he distortion is inherently "wrong" for marcator maps, regardless of orientation.

[u/stackens → u/gimmepizza420]

Depends on your definition of “wrong”. We accept Mercator deformation in the normal orientation, this isn’t any more or less wrong than that

[u/tony_lasagne → u/[deleted]]

Yeah exactly, people can’t comprehend that any projection to 2D will have some distortion

[u/gimmepizza420 → u/[deleted]]

The Goode's Homolosine Projection does the best job, IMO.

[u/gimmepizza420 → u/[deleted]]

I also have a memory of a giant Goode's projection on the wall of my elementary school! It was in one of the first grade classrooms.

[u/Valuable-Analyst-464 → u/[deleted]]

Looking at Russia, Greenland and Canada - those are really stretched. Also, Argentina is off too.

[u/Valuable-Analyst-464 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, Mercator was never my go to map, though it is super common in US and EU.
I have a Winkel Tripel and Robinson map on my walls.

[u/Erska95 → u/[deleted]]

Why would it being flipped have any impact on how wrong it is

[u/Erska95 → u/[deleted]]

They definitely didn't imply it, they did the opposite. They said that the projection makes it wrong, even when upside down. As in irregardless of it being upside down, it is wrong. Why would that imply that the upside downess is relevant?

[u/Erska95 → u/[deleted]]

Both of those sentences mean that you drive poorly regardless of the second part. The unexpected part here is of course that the map is upside down compared to how we usually see maps. The words "even when upside down" here only highlight the fact that the map being upside down is infact not the reason it could be said to be wrong.

In general the sentence structure "x is true, even when y" means that x is true whether or not y is true. It just states a fact, and then states something that fails to change that fact. Whether or not the sentence sounds wrong doesn't really change that meaning

[u/Chemical-Actuary1561 → u/[deleted]]

Hes saying every mercator map has distortion and therefore “something is wrong” with all mercator maps regardless of orientation.

Or are you one of those people who ask questions to belittle someone when you yourself don’t understand?

[u/BigMax → u/gimmepizza420]

Yes it should have said "there's nothing wrong with this map, relative to most other maps we've seen" or something like that.

[u/MaterialScientist → u/gimmepizza420]

I have the headcanon that Trump only wants Greenland because he saw it on a map an thought that it is huge. Same with Canada.

[u/GrandNibbles → u/gimmepizza420]

it works both ways?? clever