Eh. Asia is only 3.1 times larger than Antarctica, both Europe and Oceania/Australia are even smaller and South America isn't that much larger. It's a different matter if we compare it to Eurasia and America (north+south), though.
( another is simply that you can give kids cardboard Dymaxion-map/globes for them to have, so they can study it for fun, whenever they want, & earn better understanding of the world they're born-into, without any "big tech" machiavellianism working through the plain tech.
Another is that you can do the landmasses OR the oceans on the thing, as its "center"!
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 12 pts · 184d
Eh. Asia is only 3.1 times larger than Antarctica, both Europe and Oceania/Australia are even smaller and South America isn't that much larger. It's a different matter if we compare it to Eurasia and America (north+south), though.
naught101@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 184d
This is a useful reference https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_true_proportioned_continents_approximation_with_comparison.jpg
Paradox42@programming.dev · 5 pts · 183d
https://thetruesize.com/ is also fun.
Just use the search to add Antarctica and another region (like say Australia, or North America), then drag them to the equator to compare their sizes.
Skua@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 184d
To round out the list: Africa is about 2.1 times as big. Oh, and glorious Afro-Eurasia is 6 times as big, get fucked Antarctica
Paragone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 183d
and THAT is 1 reason why the Dymaxion Map is THE Right Map:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
( another is simply that you can give kids cardboard Dymaxion-map/globes for them to have, so they can study it for fun, whenever they want, & earn better understanding of the world they're born-into, without any "big tech" machiavellianism working through the plain tech.
Another is that you can do the landmasses OR the oceans on the thing, as its "center"!
: )
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Canuck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 180d
Great projection, it makes a lot of sense!
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 183d
Map projection based on an icosahedron globe is a new one.