The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoA different perspective lemmy.imagisphe.reimagemessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up1240arrow-down111
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minus-squareKsin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 hours agoAt first this map seemed perfectly fine to me, but the more I look the weirder it gets. The projection used (Mollweide?) distorts the hell out of Europe, Iceland is practically a smear. Thailand is gone. Crimea seems missing. Is Japan a bit shrunk? They must have screwed up mounting Africa because the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are WAY too big
At first this map seemed perfectly fine to me, but the more I look the weirder it gets.
They also claim South Korea.