World Map Actual Scale

We all know most maps of the world aren t entirely accurate.

World map actual scale. In reality russia canada and antarctica are big but not that big. New world map depicts continents true to their actual size the three cartographers created the equal earth map in response to public schools in boston adopting another map the gall peter map. A new kind of world map above has been developed that shows the true size of the. New world map is a more accurate earth and shows africa s full size.

Popular youtube science channel vsauce did a detailed video explaining this which in short says. The problem comes when you try to put a 3d planet on a two dimensional map. Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. The popular map format we ve adopted almost everywhere is good at mimicking the shape of land masses but is pretty loose when it comes to an actual scale.

4 september 2018. After a lifetime of being lied to by world maps redditor neilrkaye took matters into his own hands and designed a new global map that is truly to scale. When you picture a 2d representation of our world what do you see. For starters africa is way bigger than it looks and greenland isn t nearly so vast.

Eye opening true size map shows the real size of countries on a global scale. Although it s useful for navigational purposes the map is also. Africa china and india are distorted despite access to accurate satellite data. True scale map of the world shows how big countries really are by aristos georgiou on 10 23 18 at 10 54 am edt a mosaic of world countries retaining their correct size and shape.

But a designer in japan has created a map that s so accurate it s almost as good as a globe and it s probably one of the best estimations you ll see of the real size of countries. The distortion is the result of the mercator map which was created. Is greenland really as big as all of africa. By sara barnes on july 20 2016.

Finally a truly to scale map of the world l v. The design called authagraph is so good it s. Of course this projection has its drawbacks too. Earth 22 august 2018 by michael le page.

Chances are you re probably thinking of the mercator map a standard type of projection that s been around since the late 16th century. A great tool for educators. This bizarre world map is so crazily accurate it actually folds into a globe. When you flatten out all the countries they don t fit together perfectly.

You may be surprised at what you find. Landmasses that are closer to the poles look much bigger than they are in real life. Home design eye opening true size map shows the real size of countries on a global scale.