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And then just going about your day (media.piefed.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

is this an accurate representation of the US landmass ? I was under the impression they were much biger than that..., but they're roughly the size of Europe ?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (1 child)
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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Screenshot of a map of the continental United States on top of a map of Europe, accounting for the map projection. The US stretches from just west of Ireland all the way to TΓΌrkiye and interior parts of Russia.

    It looks just slightly bigger than in the OP's screenshot

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The two "maps" are wildly out of proportions anyway. Looks like Sweden is the size of the entire US West Coast. When in reality it's about the size of California

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Given how the US border is distorted (Maine is north of the 49th parallel) I'm guessing this is one of those maps that distorts things as you move them around to keep the area constant. Like look how big Greenland looks up in the corner.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Greenland is not in the image

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Then what is the unlabeled landmass at the very top left, northeast of Iceland?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    The landmass in the very top left on the image in this post. Is Iceland.

    Greenland is not northeast of Iceland either. It's northwest.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map is that it exaggerates the size of countries nearer the poles, while downplaying the size of those near the equator

    For example, let's move Russia towards the equator

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Mercator does compensate for that by introducing reference rectangles. But of course, that doesn't help when people making posts using those maps, are unaware of how to read them. And also just remove said reference rectangles

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