Classic example is moving Greenland onto the US. Or Russia. Russia isn't talked about much in this case, but its dramatic how it changes.
- Colombia is about as tall as the USA's West Coast.
- Brazil is comparable to Canada.
- Indonesia is wider than Europe.
And Greenland is like CA, OR, WA, NV combined.
Good to know.
I would bet the billionaires in Trump’s good boys club are in it for the pardons they need after justice realizes what is being done with everyone’s personal data.
If I pick a point somewhere in the middle of Manhattan, the top point of Manhattan is somewhere near the top of the light colored area and the bottom point of Manhattan nearish the bottom of the light colored area. This means that if I draw straight lines on the the map from San Francisco to these two points, the angle between them is something like 30 degrees. They pass through very roughly the top and bottom of Nevada. But there's no line of constant bearing that passes from SF through the top of Nevada to the top of Manhattan while at the same time one that passes through the bottom of Nevada to the bottom of Manhattan.
This is all very wishy-washy, but it doesn't look right to me.
A rhumb line relative to true north looks straight on a standard Mercator projection, but can look like a spiral on another Mercator-style projection where the pole and center-point have been swapped.
Other choices really do put into perspective how distorted this projection is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982493
Some HN evergreens are about to hit voting age.
In the Peter's projection the size of the US and especially Europe, become "smaller" relative to say the size of Africa.
It can be quite disconcerting to a person when their "place in the world" is challenged at such a fundamental level.
Unbeliever!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi,_K...
Okay, well, perhaps he has averted his gaze.
