Land map without distortion. New Japanese world map. What's wrong with the Mercator

Hello, dear reader! This article we will continue the subject of flat land and give another fact of proving the correctness of this theory. Do not rush to spit into the monitor if you are a skeptic of this topic, and simply learning the proposed material and check it yourself.

Of course, the greatest number of people is not given to check what a world map actually should be in which we live. But a curious mind always wants to believe that our world is not as much as we used to see him. And not only people live on this big earth.

But in all this confusion, we will understand sooner or later!))

World map: false or real?

So, on the agenda we have. So they are submitted to us since childhood:

Everything is simple. Find a map of the world of flat land on the Internet of the Internet:

What do you see? Does it remind you of the ratio of continents, the sizes that Yandex showed us? Coincidence or chance?

But that's not all...

Comparison

Here is the official UN emblem:

Do not notice anything?

• First of all, it is just all the continents in relation to each other of the size that shows us the Yandex line;
• Secondly - it is very reminiscent of a flat land map. Do not find?

Question to skeptics - how so?)

This coincidence or do we really have something pushing from childhood? And most importantly - why do they do it? And why Russia is artificially enlarged, as if scared someone wanted by their mass)) or cover? After all, against the background of vast Russia, Australia is lost visually. Can something hide something on her territory? And they want people to watch anywhere, but not on a tiny Australia? Hmm ... It remains only to guess ...

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We cannot climb into space, unfortunately, but we have the Internet, brains and eyes. Close all textbooks, we do not know where they really are, and where is a lie. Become the discovers, without looking at the story.

Start making practical experiences. For example, sit down in the car and drive yourself a long distance from one city to another and compare it with an official card on Yandex.

Let's look for inconsistencies in our strange world together.

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It hides not only real sizes, but the continents about one of them we will definitely tell on the pages of the site, soon.

Many are aware that the world's usual map does not really correctly reflect the real ratio of the areas of countries, and even moreover, the seas and oceans. The use of the projection of the Mercator leads to the emergence of a multitude of distortion when, for example, Greenland looks larger than Australia ... A fundamentally new projection proposed by Japanese designers has made it possible to build the most accurate map of the world that humanity has ever seen.

How did they succeed?

The traditional world map is constructed by an old way, in which the image from the surface of the globe is transferred to a flat map using the projection of the Mercator. As a result, we get on the map Greenland several times larger than Australia, whereas in fact Greenland are three times less ...

But the map built according to the principles of the AUTHAGRAPH projection can be really innovative! Here, the proportions of sushi and water remain unchanged and correspond to what we see and on the globe. For this development, AUTHAGRAPH received a prestigious award - Japanese GOOD DESIGN AWARD.

Then there is an original process of transferring the image to the plane by combining various projection methods through intermediate objects. Such a "multi-layer display" reduces the number of errors and monstrous distortion that occurs with the traditional deployment of the surface of the globe into a flat map.

Of course, it is impossible to achieve complete perfection, but the map from Authagraph is as close as possible.

"Antarctica was opened in 1820, and the first person reached the North Pole in 1909. In the 20th century, relations between East and the West and the North-South Problems were published on the foretone of world politics. The main territorial interest was sushi, which was a human habitat. But since the end of the twentieth century, extinguishing resources and environmental problems forced attention to the polar regions and the territory of the oceans ...

Map of the world to which we are accustomed to from childhood and which almost daily use the Google Maps - not quite correct. Russia on her giant sizes; Greenland more South America; The equator is located not in the middle, but the continents are elongated at the poles. This is an equilibonal projection of the Mercator.

The projection was invented in the Middle Ages Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), a Belgian geographer and a cartographer to imagine a round ground on a two-dimensional plane for the needs of naval. It retains the angles between the directions (whatever mean), but the dimensions of the continents are distorted.

After 500 years, two smart guys made an interactive card by opening their eyes to a real amazing world. It turned out toy twist Pockemon Go, where you can rearrange the countries and compare. The author of the article went to play 12, returned only at five in the evening ...

While Hillary Clinton accuses Russian hackers in the hacking mail of the US Democratic Party, compare Russia and America. Russia is more.

But just a half times ...

In Russia, two European and two Australia could fit in Russia, South America, Africa and Asia almost entirely ... Why does Russia look smaller with "moving"? This is the projection of the Mercator. By moving the country, you can compare them, but you can not forget that this is just the game of imagination. In other words, such sizes would be Russia if there were on the spot of Africa, Australia and so on ...

Australia on the map looks like a tiny - somewhere on the severity of the world. But it is American.

More Europe and only a little inferior to China.

The United States, Australia and India are placed on the territory of Africa. By the way, on an interactive map, you can not only move the country, but also to rotate them by 360 degrees. Very comfortably.

What is Greenland? I used to think that this is a huge ice mainland, which for some reason is called the island.

Approximately with the European part of Russia ...

But here is real Greenland! By area - as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the projection of the Mercator, Sushi Square is stretched from the North and South Poles and, on the contrary, slightly narrows at the equator.

By the way, about the poles. Antarctica is not even placed on the map. Poles on it can not be depicted - it is flat.

But what will happen if placing it in the Atlantic Ocean? We found Atlantis!

I move it to Russia and Antarctica again leaves for the edges, stretching to infinity. So it would look like ice mainland on the site of the Russian Federation.

The biggest countries of Africa ...

Imagine Africa is trying to seize the world. It looks like a M & M's pea scattered on the table.

America captures the world ...

Russia ... I just moved them to the area of \u200b\u200bthe North Pole.

Pose US in the Mediterranean Sea and the Roman Empire will turn out. Such she was once. Another interesting nuance: American cities climate accurately coincide in European. After all, the weather in Chicago is about as in Bulgaria, Florida is similar to Egypt, and California is easy to confuse with Spain ...

On the contrary: Six large European countries (Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania) in the United States. Conclusion: Europe can move to America entirely. And another place will remain.

Another former empire is British. A small island country has managed to legate around the world.

I read somewhere that 78 Italy will fit in Russia. Checked: 23 was placed. But this is because Italy has become more.

Japan in shape resembles Baikal.

In the world there are only four places where you can admire the geysers: Iceland, Kamchatka, New Zealand and Yellowstone National Park in the United States. That's what will happen if you place Iceland in each of them ... She's tiny.

Moscow Region in Spain.

A tiny island could be lost somewhere in the Mediterranean. And no one would notice.

Or in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Madagascar perfectly placed in the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk.

And Jamaica - in white ... but they would not like it.

I heard about the country New Caledonia?

Nothing amazing ...

Finally, the ten largest countries in the equator - it is best to compare their dimensions. Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria. What does Algeria do in the top ten? So I was surprised ...

If you look at the world map, then you are likely to think that North America and Russia are more than Africa. However, in fact, Africa is three times more than North America and significantly more Russia.

This strange distortion was investigated by scientists on climatic data from the National Meteorological Service of Great Britain (Meteorological Bureau, Met Office.), who created a two-dimensional map showing how the world really looks. It turned out that many countries - including Russia, Canada and Greenland - are not so great as we think. Distortion originates from the projection of the Mercator - a map that is most often found in classes and in textbooks. It was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the sea.

What is wrong with the Mercator's card?

Africa is about 14 times more than Greenland, and yet on the map they have almost the same size. Brazil is more than 5 times more than Alaska, but Alaska is more Brazil on the map. The map shows that the Scandinavian countries are more than India, while in fact India is 3 times the larger than all Scandinavian countries combined. Although Europe looks like more than North America, actually correctly the opposite. Russia is also not as great as it is depicted - in fact Africa is more than Russia.

The biggest problem with the creation of an accurate map is that it is impossible to portray the reality of the spherical world on a flat map - a problem that worries cartographers over the centuries. As a result, the forms of world maps, as a rule, were diverse - from hearts to cones. But the diversity gradually disappeared with the arrival of one model proposed by Gerard Mercator in 1596. The projection of the Mercator shows the correct forms of land plots, but the price of distorting their size in favor of the lands in the north.

Gerard Mercator(March 5, 1512 - December 2, 1594) - Flemish cartographer, known to create a world map based on the projection, showing sailing routes in the form of straight lines. Although this is what it is most famous, the Mercator was not just a geographer. He also engaged in theology, philosophy, history, mathematics and magnetism. Mercator was also engraver and a calligraph, and even made globes and scientific tools. Unlike other geographers, he traveled little. Instead, his knowledge of geography was based on his library, numbering more than a thousand books and cards. In the 1580s, he began publishing his Atlas, which he called in honor of the Giant from Greek mythology holding the world on his shoulders. He suffered a series of strokes at the beginning of the 1590s, which left it partially paralyzed, and almost blind. The last blow was the cause of his death in 1594 at the age of 82 years.

Neil Kay, a scientist for climatic data in Met Office., created an accurate map of the world, which shows that countries in the northern hemisphere are much smaller than people usually think. To do this, he introduced data on the sizes of each country in GgPlot., which is a package of visualization data for statistical programming. Then he created a map using the projection sterographic. This is a display feature that projects the sphere on the plane. After that, Kay had a manual setting, adjusting the size of countries that are located closer to the poles. Thus, according to Kay, it is impossible to place all forms again on the sphere after they have already been laid on the plane.

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Did you ever think about what real sizes of countries differ from those shown in geographic maps? In principle, for the Soviet schoolchild, there would be no such interest, since they knew all the students even with average academic performance.

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So, the real size of countries and continents differ from what we see on the maps. For example, looking at the map, you might think that Russia is significantly more than the continent in size. In fact, Africa (≈ 30 million km²) on the scale of the territory almost twice as much more Russia (≈ 17 million km²).

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