Did anyone notice in the About dialog that the infographic "The True Size of Africa" was done by Kai Krause? Kai Krause as in Kai's Power Tools.
The True Size of Countries
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Re: The True Size of Countries
#52Just for fun, I laid the UK over the eastern US with London roughly on top of Atlanta. Edinburgh falls very near Indianapolis. Now from Google maps, the straight line distance from Atlanta to Indianapolis is about 429 miles, while London to Edinburgh is 331. This leads me to believe that this tool is not accurately doing what it purports to be.
When I put London on top of Atlanta (which admittedly is hard to do exactly because the cities in the country getting moved around aren't indicated), Edinburgh lands in southern Indiana, somewhere between Louisville, KY and Evansville, IN.
Re: The True Size of Countries
#53Just for fun, I laid the UK over the eastern US with London roughly on top of Atlanta. Edinburgh falls very near Indianapolis. Now from Google maps, the straight line distance from Atlanta to Indianapolis is about 429 miles, while London to Edinburgh is 331. This leads me to believe that this tool is not accurately doing what it purports to be.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how it works. You're comparing the true size of UK with the flatmap projection of US. To do what you want, you need to compare the true maps of both countries - with the cities.
Re: The True Size of Countries
#54Just for fun, I laid the UK over the eastern US with London roughly on top of Atlanta. Edinburgh falls very near Indianapolis. Now from Google maps, the straight line distance from Atlanta to Indianapolis is about 429 miles, while London to Edinburgh is 331. This leads me to believe that this tool is not accurately doing what it purports to be.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how it works. You're comparing the true size of UK with the flatmap projection of US. To do what you want, you need to compare the true maps of both countries - with the cities.
No, because this map scales the country according to its latitude. So when you drag down England to be next to Atlanta, you're looking at the size of England with respect to Atlanta. The "true size" is just "true" in comparison to whatever it's on top of. So it should be accurate.
Re: The True Size of Countries
#55The projection is inconsistent: dragging a country over where it really belongs results in an outline that does not line up.
That's only the rotation. You can fix the rotation by clicking on the compass rose.
But I admit, the first thing I did as well was to drag the sample outlines over their own counties, and thought it was messy how they didn't line up.
Re: The True Size of Countries
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that's how it works. You're comparing the true size of UK with the flatmap projection of US. To do what you want, you need to compare the true maps of both countries - with the cities.
No, because this map scales the country according to its latitude. So when you drag down England to be next to Atlanta, you're looking at the size of England with respect to Atlanta . The "true size" is just "true" in comparison to whatever it's on top of. So it should be accurate.
Ok yes. An accuracy issue then as it's probably using a simple algo for the projection. Stand corrected.
Re: The True Size of Countries
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
...I never said it wasn't? I was just objecting to calling North America an island.
He was referring to the fact that Antarctica isn't connected to any other continent either.
I know, and I never said it was--hence my confusion at being called silly for my post (which was purely objecting to calling North America an island, since it IS connected by land).
Re: The True Size of Countries
#58It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
This is just a matter of semantics and word choice? Why isn't Eurasia (or Afro-Eurasia before the Suez canal) the largest island? Why not Greenland?
Re: The True Size of Countries
#59Doesn't work anymore. Apparently they exceeded their google maps request quota:
"You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API. To request more than 25,000 map loads per day, you must use an API key and enable billing: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
Re: The True Size of Countries
#60Everyone knows the ONE TRUE MAP PROJECTION is the Fuller Map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Fuller_p... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
After looking at this I just realized why maps showing airline routes always show arched lines.