Ephera comments on Hey Canada, just wanted to let you know there's alternatives.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 171 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Damn, that Mercator projection making A4 look almost as big as Greenland...

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Remember Africa is about three times larger than Canada

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[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Pretty insane to consider that sort of scale, this projection really distorts reality

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wonder how big a3 is then

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[–] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

That's the neat part, it's twice the size of A4, and half the size of A2.

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

So almost 2 greenlands or 2 almost greenlands?

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[–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

At least 2 football fields

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[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)

It's a map of the largest PDF, world for scale

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Ah, you mean like this: https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf/

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