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General => General => Topic started by: esetest on 06 October 2015, 06:34:25 pm

Title: World map
Post by: esetest 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 .
Title: Re: World map
Post by: unfazed on 06 October 2015, 07:37:16 pm
And your telling us this, why?  :pokefun
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Post by: red98 on 06 October 2015, 07:39:42 pm
More info needed.. :)
Title: Re: World map
Post by: esetest 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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Post by: slappy 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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Post by: dazza on 06 October 2015, 08:51:16 pm
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDUQuAIwA2oVChMIto_9mM2uyAIVQWsUCh2r9gc8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHo84D_HeaHY&usg=AFQjCNFzMJnmKhWiHJS3iJbyskd6CAINsA (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDUQuAIwA2oVChMIto_9mM2uyAIVQWsUCh2r9gc8&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHo84D_HeaHY&usg=AFQjCNFzMJnmKhWiHJS3iJbyskd6CAINsA)
Title: Re: World map
Post by: Skippernick 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.


Just ask a sailor.
Title: Re: World map
Post by: esetest 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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Post by: lew600fazer 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.
My son has a double masters degree from Liverpool and Bordeaux Uni's.
We have recently stopped buying him Velcro lace up ?shoes. Seriously clever lad but I would not let him cross the road on his own.
Title: Re: World map
Post by: Fazerider on 07 October 2015, 11:05:16 am
... reminds me of this:
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Title: Re: World map
Post by: HarryHornby 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 
Title: Re: World map
Post by: celticdog on 12 October 2015, 09:06:54 pm
Quote from: esetest 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 .


Crazy talk, next thing you know someone'll try to convince us that the world isn't flat . . .
Title: Re: World map
Post by: sinto on 12 October 2015, 10:45:07 pm
Quote from: esetest 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 .
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
Title: Re: World map
Post by: Grayo on 12 October 2015, 11:17:40 pm
Quote from: celticdog on 12 October 2015, 09:06:54 pm
Quote from: esetest 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 .


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


Or Coronation Street is not real. (Which of course it must be because it's in colour).  :lol
Title: Re: World map
Post by: Val on 13 October 2015, 06:24:46 pm
maps are the work of Satan
Title: Re: World map
Post by: purplebear7 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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