Comment on xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

Trabic@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Magnetic north is variable, and curved. It’s not even accross continents and changes over time. So the map is distorted so that up on the 2D plane of the drawing is magnetic north… Meaning all the countries and shapes are distorted so that magnetic north at those locations matches up in the drawing.

  They’re drawn so that magnetic north is the top border of the image.

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The most obvious one for me (maybe because I live there…) is that NZ is basically vertical, rather than being on a big angle.

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    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find it more astonishing that NZ is depicted at all.

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• LarsIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  youtu.be/HSRmfNDk87s

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