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An interactive playground to explore the extreme distortions of the Mercator projection. Set any point on Earth as the new North Pole. Warp the map in real-time. See the world in a whole new way.
8 wrz 2015 · That GIF comes from a new interactive map project, the True Size. It lets you visualize how big countries really are, rather than how big they appear when distorted on a map.
31 paź 2017 · A lot of people have problems with the Mercator map of the world. Fortunately, The True Size is set up to help cartography fans see how much it distorts land mass by allowing users to move outlines of nations across the 2-D images. It is oddly addictive.
19 lis 2018 · 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.
ADVANCED SEARCH. Great interactive tool to teach the distortions of the Mercator Projection. Some wonderful people have made an interactive puzzle that wonderfully demonstrates how the Mercator Projection distorts size towards either pole. You start with 15 red countries scattered across a Mercator Projection of the world.
Inspired by Krause's map, James Talmage, and Damon Maneice, two computer developers based out of Detroit, created an interactive graphic that really puts the distortion caused by the Mercator...
Interactive Map. How can we visualize real distance in the Mercator projection? All maps are distorted. But how much? Mouseover the map to see how the size of a 500 miles radius circle changes according to the distortion of the Mercator projection.
