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trane_project wrote 2 hours 39 min ago:
Mexico City is great for this because it points you to the central
square. You can see the avenues spiraling out of the square, some of
which follow the same routes as the avenues that lead to the
city-island of prehispanic times (Calzada de Tlalpan, for example).
kzrdude wrote 6 hours 14 min ago:
I honestly wonder why I find this so skin-crawling and unsettling.
Something about the distortion of a familiar shape.
Theodores wrote 6 hours 49 min ago:
Brilliant fun. Do change the layers and orientation, to play with the
suggested locations!
elil17 wrote 7 hours 24 min ago:
This reminds me of "The View of the World from 9th Avenue":
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Ajedi32 wrote 7 hours 31 min ago:
Reminds me of bad map projection #45: Exterior Kansas[1]:
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nelblu wrote 7 hours 34 min ago:
Incidentally a friend just shared this with me earlier today :
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somishere wrote 7 hours 42 min ago:
This is basically how my mind works. Mind projection.
bmenrigh wrote 7 hours 56 min ago:
If you search for "90,0" and then use the change orientation button to
put the south pole on the bottom of the screen you can recover the more
familiar distorted map.
Other choices really do put into perspective how distorted this
projection is.
michalc wrote 9 hours 40 min ago:
I made something along these lines a while back too:
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aylmao wrote 7 hours 49 min ago:
I like the simplicity of yours!
jumperabg wrote 9 hours 43 min ago:
This is information that a specific Earth community must not access, it
will cause flat out chaos!
fmajid wrote 9 hours 54 min ago:
Remember that "The West Wing" episode where geographers petition the
White House chief of staff to replace the Mercator projection with the
more accurate and less Euro/US-centric Peters one? This one looks
designed to stroke the Yuge ego of one Donald J Trump...
bruce511 wrote 1 hour 59 min ago:
I remember that episode well, and had cause recently (size of
Greenland in the news) to show someone else the same thing.
In the Peter's projection the size of the US and especially Europe,
become "smaller" relative to say the size of Africa.
It can be quite disconcerting to a person when their "place in the
world" is challenged at such a fundamental level.
bschne wrote 7 hours 48 min ago:
oh my god, today I learned
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fmajid wrote 4 hours 39 min ago:
Yes, a great and educational episode, which is exactly why it's
fiction. Although I would expect anyone working at the White House
to have seen an actual globe. Well, perhaps not this White House.
defrost wrote 4 hours 34 min ago:
> Well, perhaps not this White House.
Unbeliever! [1] Okay, well, perhaps he has averted his gaze.
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mkehrt wrote 10 hours 21 min ago:
Is this really a Mercator projection? It doesn't appear to maintain
the invariant that lines of constant bearing are straight lines.
If I pick a point somewhere in the middle of Manhattan, the top point
of Manhattan is somewhere near the top of the light colored area and
the bottom point of Manhattan nearish the bottom of the light colored
area. This means that if I draw straight lines on the the map from San
Francisco to these two points, the angle between them is something like
30 degrees. They pass through very roughly the top and bottom of
Nevada. But there's no line of constant bearing that passes from SF
through the top of Nevada to the top of Manhattan while at the same
time one that passes through the bottom of Nevada to the bottom of
Manhattan.
This is all very wishy-washy, but it doesn't look right to me.
mbrubeck wrote 10 hours 9 min ago:
"Lines of constant bearing" (or "rhumb lines") depend on the choice
of poles.
A rhumb line relative to true north looks straight on a standard
Mercator projection, but can look like a spiral on another
Mercator-style projection where the pole and center-point have been
swapped.
mkehrt wrote 10 hours 4 min ago:
Oh, that's an interesting point. Maybe that's what's going on. It's
hard to picture such a line with a different pole.
bangaladore wrote 10 hours 30 min ago:
Not the same idea, but the same category. You can Drag countries to
different places on the Mercator projection to see how they warp and
change size.
Classic example is moving Greenland onto the US. Or Russia. Russia
isn't talked about much in this case, but its dramatic how it changes.
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saghm wrote 1 hour 16 min ago:
An example I saw in school is that (if I remember correctly) you can
fit the continental US, Europe, and China all inside Africa with some
room to spare (and maybe a couple other large things I'm forgetting!)
aylmao wrote 7 hours 50 min ago:
Some very impressive ones to look at here:
- Colombia is about as tall as the USA's West Coast.
- Brazil is comparable to Canada.
- Indonesia is wider than Europe.
cluckindan wrote 8 hours 0 min ago:
âWe and our 727 technology partners ask you to consentâ¦â
I would bet the billionaires in Trumpâs good boys club are in it
for the pardons they need after justice realizes what is being done
with everyoneâs personal data.
jvanderbot wrote 10 hours 5 min ago:
Oh so the whole UK would fit in Texas, USA a couple times.
And Greenland is like CA, OR, WA, NV combined.
Good to know.
patternMachine wrote 10 hours 40 min ago:
Essentially the plot of The Inverted World.
pvg wrote 10 hours 53 min ago:
A Show HN thread in 2014
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NotAnOtter wrote 10 hours 36 min ago:
Damn, still getting reposted a decade later lmao
pvg wrote 10 hours 23 min ago:
You ain't seen nothin' yet! [1] Some HN evergreens are about to hit
voting age.
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