Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain
Pk_thunder@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
This might be my favorite shitpost of all time haha
Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain
Pk_thunder@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
This might be my favorite shitpost of all time haha
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t get it. The joke is “haha it’s actually not a misleading projection”… ?
owsei@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Mercator’s deformation show up when you move countries north/south. Since Portugal only moved slightly East the apparent size basically didn’t change. (You can even see and compare real Portugal just left of the red projection)
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Right. The reason I don’t get the post is that I thought everyone would know and see this ^
I feel like this post is taking a picture of a cube, calling it a cube, then I’m supposed to doubt that it’s a cube. Which I wouldn’t…
echodot@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Well not exactly because it’s still a misleading projection, because Spain is also incorrectly projected given how far north it is
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I meant misleading in a relative sense. In any case, this post makes no sense to me.