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World map
« on: 06 October 2015, 06:34:25 pm »
Just found out that South America , Africa and Australalia are a lot bigger than appear on the map of the world we see .

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Re: World map
« Reply #1 on: 06 October 2015, 07:37:16 pm »
And your telling us this, why?  :pokefun

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Re: World map
« Reply #2 on: 06 October 2015, 07:39:42 pm »
More info needed.. :)
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Re: World map
« Reply #3 on: 06 October 2015, 07:43:42 pm »
Just the sort of stuff you learn when your daughter is at uni , I don't know why they don't show the world as it is , that's speculative .

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Re: World map
« Reply #4 on: 06 October 2015, 08:33:45 pm »
I don't get it, surely they are drawn to the same scale as the other countries. Why would they make them smaller?


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Re: World map
« Reply #6 on: 06 October 2015, 09:08:49 pm »
We see what is called a Meractor Projection, this is done so that it is easier to fit a round globe on a square page, nothing more nothing less.
All lines of Longitude (vertical) meet at the top at the poles but are spaced like lines of Latitude on the Equator.
If you look at a good atlas it will have two world maps at the beginning the normal, can't remember whats its called,projection which looks like an orange peel and then a Meractor next to it. All this means is that land nearer the poles gets blown up relative to land near the Equator.


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Re: World map
« Reply #7 on: 06 October 2015, 09:10:51 pm »
Apparently it's to do with the developed countries wanting to look bigger than they actually are , what else aren't they telling us .

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Re: World map
« Reply #8 on: 06 October 2015, 11:11:04 pm »
Learning this at Uni!!!!!!!!!! really ??
Sorry they will be teaching them to do joined up writing (in my case maybe even spelling)next.
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Re: World map
« Reply #9 on: 07 October 2015, 11:05:16 am »
... reminds me of this:
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Re: World map
« Reply #10 on: 07 October 2015, 12:19:25 pm »
We have a lot of academics at the Uni where I work (obviously).  I call some of them "lighthouses in the desert"  Extremely bright, but foc all use to anyone!  :lol 
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Re: World map
« Reply #11 on: 12 October 2015, 09:06:54 pm »
Just found out that South America , Africa and Australalia are a lot bigger than appear on the map of the world we see .


Crazy talk, next thing you know someone'll try to convince us that the world isn't flat . . .
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Re: World map
« Reply #12 on: 12 October 2015, 10:45:07 pm »
Just found out that South America , Africa and Australalia are a lot bigger than appear on the map of the world we see .
I would foccin hope everywhere is bigger than they appear on a map of the world or we've wasted a lot of money getting planes to these places :rollin
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Re: World map
« Reply #13 on: 12 October 2015, 11:17:40 pm »
Just found out that South America , Africa and Australalia are a lot bigger than appear on the map of the world we see .


Crazy talk, next thing you know someone'll try to convince us that the world isn't flat . . .


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Re: World map
« Reply #14 on: 13 October 2015, 06:24:46 pm »
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Re: World map
« Reply #15 on: 13 October 2015, 07:18:27 pm »
The Mercator Projection is the most used one for International Sea Charts ... and also Land Maps.

The other main Chart Projection (that Sipperjack can't quite remember) is the Gnomonic (pronounced No-Monic) Projection.

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