Real Map Of The World Vs Fake

Real map of the world vs fake

In 1569 gerardus mercator built a whole world drawn along colonial lines literally. All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare t. Africa china and india are distorted despite access to accurate satellite data.

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The robinson isn t as extreme however taking the form of a much more gentle oval.

Bored panda has played a bit on world maps with countries provided by this site and this is what we found. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the mercator projection below which was developed all the way back in 1569 and greatly distorts the relative areas of land masses. The map was an attempt at a compromise between distorting the areas of continents and the angles of coordinate line.

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The standard world map actually looks nothing like the real one and this is why the popular map projection which is also used by google shows the continents and countries in disproportionate. It s called the mercator projection. This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere.

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Every straight squiggle between continents depicts a shipping route for trade with the biggest economic powers given the space on paper to flex their border biceps.
And none of these projections can be titled the real world map just because they all depict the same earth through a different lens.
Why every world map you re looking at is wrong.
The distortion is the result of the mercator map which was created.