boredsquirrel to [email protected]English • 7 months agoTrue continent sizesslrpnk.netimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down112cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-27 months agoI don’t like that Russia looks like they just took a Mercator projection and shrank to scale. Because of its shape and location, Russia is especially distorted by the Equatorial-centred Mercator. Also what’s with the “excluding Russia” footnote?
minus-squareboredsquirrelOPlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-27 months agoEurope without the part of russia that lies on the continent. But true, Russia at the equator looks like this:
I don’t like that Russia looks like they just took a Mercator projection and shrank to scale. Because of its shape and location, Russia is especially distorted by the Equatorial-centred Mercator.
Also what’s with the “excluding Russia” footnote?
Europe without the part of russia that lies on the continent.
But true, Russia at the equator looks like this:
A galloping sheep.
Ah, I see. It’s
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