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oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help. Im sure back in the early 1900's every country had a slightly different looking map that they had patched together with their data.

:shrugs:

I finally do get what your saying, australia is about twice as long, but I dont know again I could round that up to any number of errors.

I wonder if it was intentionally done like that to obscure trade routes or something.

Meh, I still think its because of some kind of projection issue.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-3700634%2FInteractive-world-map-shows-just-large-Australia-is.html

Australia is huge.

Funny part is it would look exactly like that if you connected new zealand and australia. Possible they based this on a map that the locals had made 500+ years ago? When the sea level was lower? You can claim thats not true either. But we know there are settlements and even forests under water.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1911285116

https://www.thisisalabama.org/underwaterforest/

1 year ago
1 score
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oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help. Im sure back in the early 1900's every country had a slightly different looking map that they had patched together with their data.

:shrugs:

I finally do get what your saying, australia is about twice as long, but I dont know again I could round that up to any number of errors.

I wonder if it was intentionally done like that to obscure trade routes or something.

Meh, I still think its because of some kind of projection issue.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-3700634%2FInteractive-world-map-shows-just-large-Australia-is.html

Australia is huge.

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help. Im sure back in the early 1900's every country had a slightly different looking map that they had patched together with their data.

:shrugs:

I finally do get what your saying, australia is about twice as long, but I dont know again I could round that up to any number of errors.

I wonder if it was intentionally done like that to obscure trade routes or something.

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help. Im sure back in the early 1900's every country had a slightly different looking map that they had patched together with their data.

:shrugs:

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help. Im sure back in the early 1900's every country had a slightly different looking map that they had patched together with their data.

:shrugs:

That map doesnt even show australia my friend, your looking at south america.

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: None provided.

oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help. Im sure back in the early 1900's every country had a slightly different looking map that they had patched together with their data.

:shrugs:

1 year ago
1 score
Reason: Original

oy vey, you must try a little harder my friend.

Ive already explained to you, there is no "right" way of projecting a 3d image onto a 2d space. Its mathematically impossible.

Anyways, appears they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection, but flipped 90 degrees and with some differently shaped landmasses, but I doubt there were many sat photos back then to help.

:shrugs:

1 year ago
1 score