Africa : Africa Could Fit China and the U.S., With Room to Spare

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

In the Spirit of Sankofa,



Africa Could Fit China and the U.S., With Room to Spare


In early 2013, James Talmage and Damon Maneice, two computer developers in Detroit, created an interactive map that shows the relative expanse of nations and continents. Partly inspired by the designer Kai Krause’s map “The True Size of Africa,” and an episode of The West Wing,TheTrueSize.com shows how distorting the Mercator-map projections are ...

The Mercator projection (Wikimedia)



http://news.yahoo.com/africa-could-fit-china-u-153338300.html


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[anAfrican]

compare:

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

compare:

Right, the article offers the same link, true size:

" ... Partly inspired by the designer Kai Krause’s map “The True Size of Africa,” and an episode of The West Wing,TheTrueSize.com shows how distorting the Mercator-map projections are ..."​

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[anAfrican]

Right, the article offers the same link, true size:

`scuse. the image i posted contains a lot of comparison data. i would have posted the thread that it showed up in, but i couldn't remember the thread title, so used the image i downloaded. been so long i couldn't remember how to upload the image itself to the forum, hence the attachment.

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

`scuse. the image i posted contains a lot of comparison data. i would have posted the thread that it showed up in, but i couldn't remember the thread title, so used the image i downloaded. been so long i couldn't remember how to upload the image itself to the forum, hence the attachment.

Understood ...