World Map With Scale

World Map With Scale. Here's why our world maps are not to scale Spoiler alert Greenland is 14.5 times smaller than Map of The Gulf of Mexico / Gulf of America Kansas City 3D Map Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Because this map uses the Mercator projection—a standard for many Web maps—you'll also notice how the sizes of countries change as you drag them towards the Equator or the poles.

The maps are all the work of climate data scientist @neilrkaye. Africa has regained its geographic primacy while North America and Europe are shrunk back to their true sizes

World Map With Scale

Because this map uses the Mercator projection—a standard for many Web maps—you'll also notice how the sizes of countries change as you drag them towards the Equator or the poles. Scale is highly exaggerated as distance from the equator increases Map of The Gulf of Mexico / Gulf of America Kansas City 3D Map Page 1 Page 2 Page 3

World Map Scale. You can use this map for any purpose, provided you reference this page. Map found via reddit, click for larger version While it's well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much

Vector world map, Miller Projection Political map small scale US centric in Illustrator format. This high-resolution world map PDF is at 300 dpi with a large-scale dimension of 7000 × 3500 pixels Equivalence - the scale on all sides of the globe is the same.