World Map Different Perspective
Different perspectives collection by lophi.
World map different perspective. World map from a different point of view. Standard world projection of the ngs in 1922 1988. This means that distances can be measured from you the center point to anywhere on the globe using a straight line unlike with traditional rectangular maps. Please practice hand washing and social distancing and check out our resources for adapting to these times.
Stay safe and healthy. What we see in a world map projection is not an accurate representation of the planet. The familiar meridian centred map conveniently places the map edges. Another convention of world maps is that they are centred on the prime meridian or zero degrees longitude east west.
Distances along meridians are conserved as is distance along one or two standard parallels. See the full version of this asia centered world map. Apr 10 2013 the way you look at the world makes you see things differently. All parallels and meridians are circular arcs.
Available in a high res jpg bitmap format. This board is a collection of different perspectives. Here are just a few of our favorite world map perspectives. But this is scientifically arbitrary deriving from the location of the royal.
Having or representing the earth as the center as in former astronomical systems. Standard world projection for the ngs since 1998. 76 pins 90 followers. The most common world maps are the ones called political maps that show the main cities of each country usually the capitals and the borders between each nation.
There is actually quite a bit of history about maps and directions which vary from culture to culture but more on that in another post. The result is that europe although also africa is in the centre of the conventional world map a rather colonial perspective. Other compromise alphons j. 1904 boundary is a circle.
Conic equidistant based on ptolemy s 1st projection c. See more ideas about world different perspectives map. See more ideas about world different perspectives map. World map of difference between solar time and clock time different areas have different local times but the times rarely actually coincide with solar activity as you can see from this map.
An azimuthal map puts you at the center showing the world spreading out from that center in all directions. Equidistant conic simple conic. About world maps in general.