Languages: English, Spanish Think about a map of the world ... where the scale becomes infinite. Animating the Mercator projection to the true size of each country in relation to all the others.

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that ... despite the opposite appearing true when looking at a map. So what's going on? Well, it turns out that many countries ...

A video showing the true size of Russia compared to Africa has gone viral on TikTok as social media users learn about the misrepresentation of scale on many world maps. First posted in late ...

Think ‘world map ... All flat surface maps are compromises with truth,” Fuller wrote in his 1946 patent. “For example, Mercators projection is true to scale only along the equator ...

Used in a wide variety of global ... scale inventory that used 1,170 ground-truthed measurements of tree density to estimate that there are 390 billion trees in the Amazon basin alone 19. Figure 1 ...

In its initial state, 'The True Size Of...' displays a world map ... the center of the map, a blue object in the shape of the Japanese archipelago appeared above Japan. The scale of this blue ...