ooli@lemmy.world to MapPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe world according to fishi.redd.itimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1243arrow-down18
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minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·1 year agoMaybe I’m not understanding. Isn’t Australia an island, so wouldn’t it show as some kind of “lake” like new Zealand is?
minus-squareDampyr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 year agoI was confused as well and I found this coloured version and this version with sea connections (green for Panama and Suez canal) that helped me to understand!
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoThank you. Still kinda a weird how they have it laid out. Granted I’m no cartographer, I don’t know the struggles of projecting a sphere on a plane.
minus-squareJackcooper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThe Continental divides split the continents in half as there’s no water that goes fully over them. That’s awesome!
minus-squareGoldELox@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agooh yes now i get it
minus-squareJohandea@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoEvery continent is an island
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agoEurope and Asia claim otherwise.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoThat’s because they’re only fake continents who don’t realize they’re just parts of Afro-eurasia. Hell, Europe is just a peninsula with delusions of grandeur.
minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHere’s a better projection. I don’- know what went wrong with OP’s…
Maybe I’m not understanding. Isn’t Australia an island, so wouldn’t it show as some kind of “lake” like new Zealand is?
I was confused as well and I found this coloured version and this version with sea connections (green for Panama and Suez canal) that helped me to understand!
Thank you.
Still kinda a weird how they have it laid out. Granted I’m no cartographer, I don’t know the struggles of projecting a sphere on a plane.
The Continental divides split the continents in half as there’s no water that goes fully over them. That’s awesome!
oh yes now i get it
Every continent is an island
Europe and Asia claim otherwise.
That’s because they’re only fake continents who don’t realize they’re just parts of Afro-eurasia.
Hell, Europe is just a peninsula with delusions of grandeur.
Here’s a better projection. I don’- know what went wrong with OP’s…