Comment on The size of Portugal compared to Spain

Pk_thunder@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t get it. The joke is “haha it’s actually not a misleading projection”… ?

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  • 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)

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    • 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…

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  • 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

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I meant misleading in a relative sense. In any case, this post makes no sense to me.

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