The further a place was from the equator, the bigger it appeared on the Mercator map. For example, in a Mercator projection map, Africa and Greenland have the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times bigger than Greenland. Similarly, Canada, Russia, and North America appear larger than they actually are.
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11. 11. 2018 · The maps here show very clearly by how much. Countries close to the equator barely change, whereas countries further north shrink dramatically.
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13. 11. 2022 · This projection is cutting off a large portion of the world that would, if included, be just an enormosly oversized Antarctica.
12. 8. 2021 · Critics of the Mercator projection argue that the continued use of this style of map gives users a warped sense of the true size of countries.
When applied to world maps, the Mercator projection inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator. Therefore, landmasses such as Greenland ...
Mercator projection is useful for navigation because the directions are accurate, although the sizes are inaccurate, and it is wildly inaccurate near the poles.
This interactive map shows the real size of countries on a mercator projection map. The animation shows some countries shrinking to show their true size.
26. 10. 2023 · Unlike the Mercator projection, which distorts the sizes of landmasses, the AuthaGraph projection aims to maintain equal area property. This ...