To be honest, everything is in a straight line if wide enough or in the correct map projection…
Ivory Coast 😔
Technically called “Côte d’Ivoire” I believe.
By that logic, most of those countries’ official names don’t start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.
No, just don’t apply the official names to all of the rest, only the outlier we want to ignore. It’s the scientific method.
Not really. That’s their official English name. Same as when Czechia renamed itself from Czech Republic. Both aren’t the name in the Czech language, but a country can still change their English name.
La francaise saves the day.
Quite.
Is there a word for the type of ragebait when it’s specifically posting something wrong, so that you get engagement from people telling you why you’re a fucking idiot? It should be bannable offense regardless. OP going straight on the block list. Actually skimming their profile they look like a low-effort repost bot anyway
wrongbait
youre talking about me? calm your tits bro 😭
Iberia anyone!
just make the line bigger
That’s not a line, it’s a fucking rectangle.
1: on the premise of being technically correct it is not because it’s just two parallel lines that may or may not be continuous on a globe
2: being less literally minded you can either fill in the the negative space to make a thick line or draw a line through the middle, though as ominous ocelot points out lower:
They also exist together on a sphere.
And all countries share a common border if you fold the map right 😉
On a curved surface.
If you remove Russia, this is a strip that covers almost half of the remaining land mass. Not impressed.
Russia benefits heavily from this map projection
Really, it’s this size:
fair enough should have said projected land mass but I think the fact that strip goes somewhat diagonal suggests that the total area distortion inside the strip and outside it (the lower side) will likely be similar (since this particular projection distorts more around the poles as far as I remember)
Fair!
I assume this is purely a result of the specific map projection used here. On an actual globe those lines are most likely neither straight nor parallel.
For some reason I read this as the letter T and I got so confused 🤔
Same, I suspect it is because “I” looks like T when you read it fast in Lemmy font.
Never saw that before.
And the quotes enhance that effect, “I” now being wider at the top rather than the bottom.
Flat Earth confirmed
Why is Norway’s coast highlighted?
It isn’t – there are just so many fjords it’s kinda highlighted by nature.
You forgot the Islamic Republic of Sweden.
All countries are in a straight line. If you make it wide enough.
Or long enough, as it’s on a spheroid.
Or use the proper projection.
Yeah, like the Euler Projection.
Oh wow! All countries are in the same line!!!
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lol, accurate but a bit difficult to see a lot of continuity.
The linked latitude longitude graph looked like it was all in a pretty straight lines though.
It’s actually a curved line
Or if you use a suitable projection. I’m pretty sure you can pick some really wild projection and make it work with another letter too.
Or if you use a suitable projection
While true, this line is pretty narrow considering it is only showing one hemisphere.
over on the non-federated link aggregation site, posts like this would be in /r/mapporncirclejerk, not the main map sub :/
Côte d’Ivorie
It’s weird they use this as their “English-language” name but I don’t really have a point, just hoping to watch a thread become a comment shit show
Côte d’Ivoire
It makes just as much sense as calling it Türkiye.
Türkiye
I’m sorry. I don’t see the character difference. What did I miss?
You spelled it right but pronounced it wrong
The 2 dots on the “u”, I think they are mandatory in English too (not so sure, though)
Yes it’s mandatory by law, there are penal sanctions and chance to get blacklisted by Türkiye and Erdoğan if you don’t abide.
I’m too punctilious, I see it now
Did you know?
All countries are in a straight line?
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“Fraction of a dot”
