The world according to the Hobo-Dyer Equal area projection, showing each country at true proportion.
this is my JAM
reblog if you hate the mercator projection and every other one that makes europe+north america look as inflated as their egos
like, look at this tragedy. this is the first result for “world map” on google images:
look at the size of africa in this. look at the size of south america. india is a nearly a subcontinent by itself. brazil alone is larger than the continental united states. it can also easily fit the entirety of non-russian europe inside it. would you have known it just from looking at this map?
not to mention the monstrosity that becomes of greenland
this is 500 year old colonial propaganda, man. fuck this shit tenfold
it’s not colonial propaganda, it’s just a different projection of a map…
That’s right folks, maps are racist! Seriously though, lets think about this for more than two seconds. The Earth is a sphere, and last time i checked it’s hard to show the true properties of a three dimensional object in a two dimensional space without having some distortion. Map makers have been trying for centuries to make a map with a low amount of distortion whilst keeping an aesthetically pleasing look.
This is one said variation. and yes, it is inaccurate as balls, but the point of it is to show the whole earth.
This is another variation, more accurate at the price of still being distorted and leaving out parts of the globe.
Starting to see my point? Maps aren’t straight forward.
Not to mention that the Hobo–Dyer projection is still distorted.
This isn’t an ego problem, it is simply, again, the difficulty of showing a three dimensional space on a two dimensional plane.
Also, XKCD gets it right again