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Alternative maps of Europe
« on: March 29, 2014, 08:01:50 pm »
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2014, 08:08:12 pm »
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Baltics being vodka drinkers with bad cuisine? I wholeheartedly disagree!

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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2014, 08:49:25 pm »
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2014, 09:42:17 pm »
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I highly disagree with the 20.

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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2014, 10:34:02 pm »
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9 is just blatantly wrong, maybe even reversed. Medditterranean countries more sexually repressed than northern ones? HAH! Although I don't see the dichotomy between sexually and emotionally repressed. If anything those things overlap.
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2014, 11:10:49 pm »
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People who eat walking? Wtf...

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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2014, 11:20:50 pm »
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lol murica best country
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2014, 11:36:28 pm »
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Further proof only good countries in Europe are Spain, Greece and Italy
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2014, 07:54:29 am »
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That reminded me of this world map which as I understood shows the real proprotions of territories unlike the standart one:
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The standart one:
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2014, 07:53:33 pm »
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Peters projection is not accurate or proportional at all. It's merely the exact opposite of Mercator. Instead of distorting around the Poles it distorts around the Equator. It's popular with SJW's who have no knowledge or interest in the history of cartography beyond pretending to be outraged, and maybe self-flagellate a bit about how evil white people are. Because it completely ignores the many, many variants of map prrojections that have been in use since the advent of scientific cartography. Mercator wasn't the standard projection for most of the colonialist/imperialist period of european powers. In fact it started becoming standard once colonial empires started fragmenting and collapsing. So the explanation for why it is the "accepted" world map projection is just so much whiny, erroneous bullshit. Not to mention even reading slightly into why Mercator used that projection you understand "imperialism" and "racism" had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Anyways, there is no way to accurately map the world onto a flat surface.
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2014, 08:19:00 pm »
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Re: Alternative maps of Europe
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2014, 10:33:08 pm »
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Peters projection is not accurate or proportional at all. It's merely the exact opposite of Mercator. Instead of distorting around the Poles it distorts around the Equator. It's popular with SJW's who have no knowledge or interest in the history of cartography beyond pretending to be outraged, and maybe self-flagellate a bit about how evil white people are. Because it completely ignores the many, many variants of map prrojections that have been in use since the advent of scientific cartography. Mercator wasn't the standard projection for most of the colonialist/imperialist period of european powers. In fact it started becoming standard once colonial empires started fragmenting and collapsing. So the explanation for why it is the "accepted" world map projection is just so much whiny, erroneous bullshit. Not to mention even reading slightly into why Mercator used that projection you understand "imperialism" and "racism" had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Anyways, there is no way to accurately map the world onto a flat surface.

Isn't Mercator's supposed to represent angles correctly (for navigation) and Peter's supposed to represent the size of surfaces (but not their actual shape) correctly ? I just remember hearing this a long time ago.

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