Upvotes 3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017Īs said above, there cannot be any "true" representation of a sphere on a rectangle. Scroll down to see the true sized world map for yourself! Take a look at each continent on the planet and one extra treat – a supposedly huge island.
In this particular map, he marked the true objects in the darker color and put them against a regular map so you can see the difference. And if you follow him on social media, you will notice he has a genuine concern for environment and education, constantly filling his feed with various informational posts and interesting facts. Even though his usual routines consist of analyzing various climate data and tracking climate change, geography is something tied closely together with his field of work. Good thing this climate data scientist took up the task of educating the masses on country size comparison and put up a map projection that shows real sizes together with those shown in regular maps. 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.
Let’s just jump ahead and say there are no conspiracy theories here.
Probably most of us are familiar with the famous saying ‘my whole life was a lie,’ and we hate to tell you that, but it most likely was when it comes to the world map as we know it.
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