Accurate Country Size Map

The usa, india, and china can all fit within the continent. The earth is depicted as a globe at further zoom levels, sidestepping map projection issues completely and displaying the world as it actually is: Have you ever looked at a map and wondered how the actual geographical size of one country compares to another?

Animating the mercator projection to the true size of each country in relation to all the others. Greenland, for comparison, is a tiny country. One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the mercator projection, depicts.

Accurate Country Size Map The inventors of the handy online tool point out that most maps are based on the mercator projection, a schema that distorts the scale of many countries because it.

Mar 3, 2021, 10:00pm pdt. Prepare yourself for a whole new kind of geography lesson. Developed by john paul goode in 1925 this projection regains the accuracy of country sizes by adding ‘interruptions’ into the ocean areas, much like an orange peel. It was inspired by a similar animation that i saw on reddit and decided i wanted to try to build the same thing.