Information Is BeautifulJan 10
Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator map projection
https://brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-true-size/
Show threadsleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞

@infobeautiful

A very bad graphic. The point is taken but that map is very inaccurate. Eg the Canadian southern border should fit perfectly with the USA but it is shrink way too much. There are much better maps which account for there projection errors.

Jan 10 at 8:39pmWeb
Show threadHenrik PauliJan 11
@sleepy62 The shrinkage is done separately per country/region/island, around each region's midpoint. So Canada is shrunk to the size it would take near the equator (where there's minimal distortion on the projection) and that form is dragged up to whatever the geometrical centre of the region is. As such, neighbouring countries do not touch anymore.