The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 13 hours agoGiving New Zealand a chance to take center stage for oncelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1405arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1402arrow-down1external-linkGiving New Zealand a chance to take center stage for oncelemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square33fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareZagorathlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·12 hours agoIt’s actually centred just off the coast of the southeastern corner of Australia
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoMaps without the correct concept of New Zealand.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoThe biggest landmass nearest to the edge is Africa (+a slight margin for human pleasure) so it probably made sense to keep that one intact for the readability of the map (cutting Alaska and Canada isn’t actually that much km²).
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 hours agoShhh, you’ll give away the true location of New Zealand.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoHow do you do this by accident? It would have cut off less of Alaska done properly, even.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoBut that would cut off more western Africa than the entire size of Alaska.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoHmm, I guess I didn’t account for the projection. It does look like it’s compressing Africa here.
It’s actually centred just off the coast of the southeastern corner of Australia
Maps without the correct concept of New Zealand.
The biggest landmass nearest to the edge is Africa (+a slight margin for human pleasure) so it probably made sense to keep that one intact for the readability of the map (cutting Alaska and Canada isn’t actually that much km²).
Shhh, you’ll give away the true location of New Zealand.
It’s Tassie time!
How do you do this by accident? It would have cut off less of Alaska done properly, even.
Less of Alaska, but more of Africa.
Maybe OP is Mauritanian.
But that would cut off more western Africa than the entire size of Alaska.
Hmm, I guess I didn’t account for the projection. It does look like it’s compressing Africa here.