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!!!
“Oh, I like this guy!”
lol, accurate but a bit difficult to see a lot of continuity.
over on the non-federated link aggregation site, posts like this would be in /r/mapporncirclejerk, not the main map sub :/
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.
It’s actually a curved line
That’s easily the case isn’t it, the only question is how much distance is there between these two lines.
Guys, guys, this is for real, I just check the wikipedia !
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
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
Côte d’Ivoire
the earth is round
Found the glober
And all countries share a common border if you fold the map right 😉
Did you know?
All countries are in a straight line?
Please send bitcoin, save the dream 😎
“Fraction of a dot”
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!
On a curved surface.
They also exist together on a sphere.
To be honest, everything is in a straight line if wide enough or in the correct map projection…
Flat Earth confirmed
Aye.
Why is Norway’s coast highlighted?
It isn’t – there are just so many fjords it’s kinda highlighted by nature.
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.
