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mapto to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 7 hours ago

This is the true size of Africa

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This is the true size of Africa

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mapto to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 7 hours ago
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Attached: 1 image The great map myth was incredibly unfair to the 'mother continent': This is the true size of #Africa https://www.green.earth/blog/true-size-map-africa
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    I wish we would stop stretching land masses and start stretching oceans in basic maps. We don’t need the Mercator for naval navigation in our day to day lives, but knowing the real size of Russia and Africa would affect our basic view of the world.

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      If stretching is ok, then why not go all the way.

      If you dislike stretching, you can always cut instead. That’s why we also have a series of octahedral butterfly maps.

      If that’s not polyhedral enough, you could try the Dymaxion projection instead.

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        Thanks, I hate you.

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