3/13/2024 0 Comments Flat earth map projectionVisually speaking, Canada and Russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the Earth’s surface, when in reality they occupy a mere 5%.Īs the animated GIF below-created by Reddit user, neilrkaye – demonstrates, northern nations such as Canada and Russia have been artificially “pumped up” in the minds of many people around the world. Mercator’s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. The vast majority of us aren’t using paper maps to chart our course across the ocean anymore, so critics of the Mercator projection argue that the continued use of this style of map gives users a warped sense of the true size of countries-particularly in the case of the African continent. The new map was well-suited to nautical navigation since every line on the sphere is a constant course, or loxodrome. PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",0,ĭue to some difference in versions, I never quite understood whether from PROJ or GDAL, in QGIS 3.4.13 the Coordinate Reference System (CRS) is found as EPSG:102016, but in QGIS 3.10.0 it is found as ESRI:102016.In 1569, the great cartographer, Gerardus Mercator, created a revolutionary new map based on a cylindrical projection. PARAMETER["Latitude of natural origin",90, ![]() It is registered in ESRI Authority with the ID 102016, and its Well Known Text (WKT) is the following: PROJCRS],ĬONVERSION["North_Pole_Azimuthal_Equidistant", ![]() ![]() The PROJ string for the ellipsoidal (datum WGS84) North Pole Azimuthal Equidistant projection is the following: The PROJ projection to transform coordinates to azimuthal equidistant is named aeqd: The printing of the image, not only does it look like a North Pole azimuthal equidistant projection, in fact it seems to be the same printed wikimedia image!
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