rendakuenthusiast: businesstiramisu: mapsontheweb:Actual distance between two points and how it lo
rendakuenthusiast: businesstiramisu: mapsontheweb: Actual distance between two points and how it looks on commonly used map drawn using Mercator projection. you don’t see as dramatic of distortion in the southern half because 1) less land down there (and no one knows what Tierra del Feugo is supposed to look like anyways) 2) the bottom third of the southern hemisphere is cut off – the bottom of the map is about the same latitude South as the southern end of the red line across Russia. You do see massive distortion of Antarctica (unless you leave it off the map entirely), but it has no permanent human population so there’s no one to care strongly about this. @mapsontheweb I feel the way you’ve labeled the map is misleading. The red line drawn in Russia is not 6400km long. The red line as drawn in Russia is about 8400km long - more than the line in Africa. The points at opposite ends of the Russian line are about 6400km apart, but that’s in a straight-line path over the North Pole, shown here in blue. -- source link