Cartographers might try to tell you the continents on these maps are distorted - but it's just their projection!
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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Aww it's not a community (yet?)
Well I think you need to add the instance name too
!lemmy.ca/c/helldivers2
Edit: wait no I didn’t do it right either
!lemmywithoutmapswithoutnz
And without the Arab countries like the UAE
I actually kind of like this as a concept for showing the world!
I like how the globe for Australia keeps the trend of not including New Zealand going.
I mean, NZ would be its own globe because it's a separate country.
But the Australia globe is potentially missing Tasmania.
Is it its own continent? Because each sphere is a continent.
Doesn't it have to be if it's an island? I feel pretty stupid right now lol
Ha, I missed that! 😁
so did the cartographer
There really is an xkcd for everything.
this is actually very close to pseudocylindrical projections (an example is the orange peal like sliced maps, wiki says its called Goode homolosine). they look wierd, are dicontinous, but still largely preserve area and angles.
this one is very similar, except sizes are still wierd, and uses different radii spheres, which makes it both non angle and size preserving.