Animating the Mercator projection to the true size of each country in relation to all the others.
Focusing on a single country helps to see effect best.#dataviz #maps #GIS #projectionmapping #mapping pic.twitter.com/clpCiluS1z
— Neil Kaye (@neilrkaye) October 12, 2018
Data scientist Neil Kaye shows how the ubiquitous Mercator Projection distorts the real scale of countries (dark blue = actual size in the map above).
The visualisation shows land masses nearer the Poles [including our own] to be much larger than they actually are.
Take aways: Mercator Alaska is larger than Mexico (it’s not). Mercator Russia is ridiculously exaggerated (it is). Africa is very large indeed.
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I get quite a thrill from the Google Maps page these days — it’s all set to a globe grid now so it’s more accurate. Prr.
Wow @ Russia.
Oh Canada
Eh!
West Wing thought me all about map inequality.
https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY
I taught the West Wing was great.
My BRAIN IS EXPLODING.
Greenland is a bit like ollie, isn’t it? All hat and no cattle.
pollie, was so upset to discover that brexitland was actually a tiny lil place that he had a second pimms cup for breakfast (along with his kippers) and is now sleeping it off.
much as I dislike Olivers nonsense
that breakfast sounds doable :)