• owsei@programming.dev
      10·
      10 hours ago

      Mercator’s deformation show up when you move countries north/south. Since Portugal only moved slightly East the apparent size basically didn’t change. (You can even see and compare real Portugal just left of the red projection)

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 hours ago

        Right. The reason I don’t get the post is that I thought everyone would know and see this ^

        I feel like this post is taking a picture of a cube, calling it a cube, then I’m supposed to doubt that it’s a cube. Which I wouldn’t…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Well not exactly because it’s still a misleading projection, because Spain is also incorrectly projected given how far north it is