World Map Actual Size Comparison
This exercise is an eye opening look at how this map might have affected our view on the world concerns that were raised as far back as the early 20th century.
World map actual size comparison. If you sailed too far you. Check out the actual shape and size of each land mass without any distortions. But looking at a map based on the mercator projection you would think so. 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.
Take a look at these true size maps that compare the actual real size of different parts of the world. The map above shows the distortion in sizes of countries due to the mercator projection. Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Today s infographic comes from the design studio art lebedev and shows the true size of the world s land masses in order from largest to smallest using data from nasa and google.
Once upon a time the human race thought that the earth was flat. You may be surprised at what you find. Pressing on the button animates the country shrinking to its actual size or growing to the size shown on the mercator projection. 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.
It was inspired by a similar animation that i saw on reddit and decided i wanted to try to build the same thing. Is greenland really as big as all of africa. Morrison warned in 1902.