marcos comments on Denominator, go Mercator

submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Did it cut out the European portion of Russia?

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago (1 child)

No, it just can't be scaled down and somehow kept in place at the tame time

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 9 months ago

Its distorted on the Mercator projection quite a bit because of its width. So the true shape looks very different presented like this.

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