tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post5986563788594494174..comments2023-04-16T08:17:58.844-04:00Comments on Common Sense Killer: The Map Is A Lie!Common Sense Killerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15330407189804800290noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-77073066107716143082020-09-24T00:11:05.730-04:002020-09-24T00:11:05.730-04:00The official source for NFL news, video highlights...The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. <a href="https://vikingsfootball.net/" rel="nofollow">Vikings football</a>NFL Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17046475873090388081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-36895250191957952462017-10-17T14:10:08.098-04:002017-10-17T14:10:08.098-04:00"The Northern Hemisphere is enlarged signific..."The Northern Hemisphere is enlarged significantly making Europe appears to be larger and center of the map."<br /><br />Uh... the Southern Hemisphere is also enlarged by the same amount at the same latitudes and is exactly the same size as the Northern Hemisphere. This is clearly illustrated with Tissot's indicatrices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot's_indicatrix added to the graticule line intersections at standard intervals. Also see http://geokov.com/education/map-projection.aspx for an expanded discussion of the various types of projections including pros and cons.<br /><br />The main reason Europe looks larger than the Southern Hemisphere occupied land masses is that Europe is farther from the equator and therefore has greater enlargement. <br /><br />The fact that Europe is also close to the center of the map is due partially to British-centrism inherent to the establishment of the 0° "Greenwich" meridian for longitude by Sir George Airy in 1851 and accepted as the international prime meridian by a 25-nation conference in 1884 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_meridian_(Greenwich). Putting this 0° meridian in the center of the map means the negative latitude angles are on the left half and the positive on the right. Given the arrangement of the continents withing this graticule definition and the focus of most North American/European map-makers being land masses, this arrangement also keeps all of the occupied continents intact while splitting the Pacific Ocean. Some Eastern Asian map makers split the Atlantic Ocean instead with this projection.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13784209543312158759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-90399727552090736282017-09-15T23:28:04.307-04:002017-09-15T23:28:04.307-04:00Thank you for your post. This is excellent informa...Thank you for your post. This is excellent information. It is amazing and wonderful to visit your site.<br /><br /><i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flat-Earth-Maps-SET-MAPS/dp/B01GR2EWX0" rel="nofollow">Buy Flat Earth Map<br /></a></b></i>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741129338056869057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-91746777700053653262016-09-24T06:59:04.989-04:002016-09-24T06:59:04.989-04:00The Earth is Flat. Do your homework. EDUCATE YOURS...The Earth is Flat. Do your homework. EDUCATE YOURSELF. ERIC DUBAY 200 PROOFS EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-62077492056510802322014-10-20T02:32:18.404-04:002014-10-20T02:32:18.404-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615908053322668632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-80195054622163073602013-12-11T18:32:43.084-05:002013-12-11T18:32:43.084-05:00yayaKhyle Jhonhttp://phnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-25062496300657378292013-12-11T18:29:37.944-05:002013-12-11T18:29:37.944-05:00Its Khyle Jhon
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As for education, many classrooms nowadays use some form of the Goode homolosine projection because of the distortion of Mercator. I went to school in the 90s and even then we had an entire elementary class on map distortions and projections, and why we put the Goode projection on the wall instead of Mercator(I remember the teacher taking an orange and flattening the peel on the table to show how difficult it was to make a spherical globe into a flat map.) While the points in the article are factually valid, the inflammatory language used here and thinly-veiled conspiracy theorizing are ironically more subversive to the reader than any usage of the Mercator projection.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-86762724604526982262010-10-28T08:20:44.099-04:002010-10-28T08:20:44.099-04:00No cartographer in their right mind has ever said ...No cartographer in their right mind has ever said "[the mercator projection] should never be used. for anything. ever."<br />It is merely the misuse of a purely functional navigational tool as an educational device which they have protested.<br /><br />This is however a moot issue concerning google maps because...<br />google maps uses the mercator projection for the same reason that navigators use the mercator projection...<br />I.E. that google maps is primarily a navigational tool, and not a geo-political statement.<br /><br />Pros:<br />It is conformal (preserves angles), which means that the shape of objects is preserved.<br />It is rectangular & uninterrupted, which allows the computer to tile the map for scaling purposes.<br />Zooming in reduces the distortion, a 40km wide map has exactly 1/1000 the distortion of the 40,000km wide full earth map<br /><br />Cons:<br />The scale of the map increases as you move away from the equator.<br /><br /><br />The gall-peters AKA the 45 degree equal area cylindrical projection. It is equal area and rectangular, but it does not preserve angles. Shapes distort as you move away from 45 degrees north and 45 degrees south.<br />It has EXACTLY the same amount of distortion as, all other cylindrical projections, including the mercator projection, AND is also nearly useless as a navigational aid.<br /><br />The robinson and winkel projections are purely cosmetic. they distort both shape and size, and cannot be tiled. This makes them useless for everything except being pretty to look at.<br /><br /><br />The least distorted conformal map of the whole planet that I can think of is the Peirce quincuncial projection. However it is unsuitable for the purposes of google maps because it is radial and thus is not compatible with the google maps display.<br /><br />The conformal conic projection is probably the best for navigation, but can only represent a small area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-41574251997696634432010-06-24T02:05:55.518-04:002010-06-24T02:05:55.518-04:00nice post! did you actually email google that que...nice post! did you actually email google that question?<br /><br />i think extra credit points loom in your future :)professor qnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1774226255722825380.post-82424428305948587422010-06-23T03:00:00.462-04:002010-06-23T03:00:00.462-04:00LOL, nice. Yea ive actually noticed that some maps...LOL, nice. Yea ive actually noticed that some maps do infact make the northern hemisphere seem bigger than it really is. Stupid google.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com