The Real World Map South Is North

It is said to represent the earth’s continents as “one island”. It’s just not that simple laying out a globe on a flat piece of paper as in the mercator map that we are all so familiar with. The new version accurately records the size of south america, africa and indonesia.

World map real september 27, 2021 january 8, 2021 by wun it’s very fascinating to simply examine the world map , and to see such incredible places that include oceans, mountains, continents, and countries. The world is projected onto the surface of a icosahedron, allowing it to be unfolded and flattened in two dimensions. All of that because finland is closer to the north pole and as you learned earlier the mercator projection makes the countries closer to the poles look larger.

It’s just not that simple laying out a globe on a flat piece of paper as in the mercator map that we are all so familiar with.

Visually speaking, canada and russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the earth’s surface, when in reality they occupy a mere 5%. Animating the mercator projection to the true size of each country in relation to all the others. South on top was conventional in early islamic maps to depict the muslim cultures north of mecca. 9:00pm, apr 16, 2017 updated: