{"id":16880,"date":"2021-08-15T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16880"},"modified":"2021-08-15T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:38:47","slug":"projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16880","title":{"rendered":"projection&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Geographic Inflation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vast majority of us aren\u2019t 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\u2014particularly in the case of the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mercator\u2019s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. Visually speaking, <strong>Canada and Russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the Earth\u2019s surface, when in reality they occupy a mere<\/strong> <strong>5%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the animated GIF below\u2014created by Reddit user,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/neilrkaye\/posts\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neilrkaye<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 demonstrates, northern nations such as Canada and Russia have been artificially \u201cpumped up\u201d in the minds of many people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source: Visual Capitalist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mercator-vs-truesize.gif\" alt=\"True size of countries animation Mercator\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>In reaction to Canada&#8217;s true geographical size being brought to light, PM Trudeau called an election hoping the  citizens will not notice the Great Dominion&#8217;s  geographical diminution in the eyes of the world, counting on the distraction over why a federal election was called in the first place.<\/p><cite><strong>anonymous<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pm-2-maps.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pm-2-maps.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pm-2-maps-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pm-2-maps-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Court-Painter-pick-me-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Court-Painter-pick-me-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Court-Painter-pick-me--300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Court-Painter-pick-me--768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geographic Inflation The vast majority of us aren\u2019t 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\u2014particularly in the case of the African continent. Mercator\u2019s map &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=16880\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;projection&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16880"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20266,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions\/20266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}