How World Map Look Different Than You Think? Real Life Lore (Reaction)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Not all maps are created equal. My thoughts & nerdy commentary on maps. Real Life Lore reaction. Drop any book recommendations down below.
Original Video: • How the World Map Look...
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Everyone should be given a globe as a child. It gives you such a better perspective and understanding about the world we all share.
Or give them a plate, depending on if the parents are flat earthers.
Today’s public schools I’m guessing bypasses geography? I don’t know. But I do have a hunch that most teens have never unfolded a map amor had a globe.
@@Pineoilheavan no need for that when you can have Google maps tell you how to get to the nearest vape shop.
@alw4ysblu3 school no longer teaches geography slick
@@Oi.... It used to be that way here in the US, too. When I was a kid back in the 70s I memorized all 50 states and their capitol cities. Plus many nations and their capitols. And I had a globe given to me by my parrents.
I think most people in school learned with the Mercator projection map. I did. And a trusty globe that I had from when I was 4 years old, but broke right before I moved out.
Most people I know learned with Mercator projection as well! I’m curious to see if anyone had a different experience
@@NoProtocol I'm African so I don't think I neccessarily learn't it, was pleasently surprised to learn how big Africa really is
@@NoProtocol In Russia and the countries of the former USSR, maps with a different projection where the dimensions are almost correctly shown.
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If you're looking for a book about navigating the globe, there's always "Around the World in 80 Days", which I remember loving reading when I was a kid.
Oh I maybe read that one time and I have Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon
Also, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Keep a globe or atlas handy while reading that one. It comes in handy.
Yes was going to suggest the this one!
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Maps are fun, there are representative maps (like the world map) and grid maps (like those used by the military). Grid maps are supposed to be accurate so precise coordinates can be set. Also, topo maps are cool and have to be updated regularly because the landscape can be changed. Cool video young lady.
The Mercator map is used because it shows the oceans most accurately rather than landmasses, and seeing how shipping and navigation is much more important than us simply finding precisely where we are on a world map that's why it's used.
I'd recommend Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. A super interesting read.
This one looks to be a fascinating read about how it was a clock maker who solved this problem. Was also surprised to find out that it was turned into a 4 episode television series back in 2000.
I'm from New Zealand, and I found that although it is relatively small, it's interesting how it's bigger than it seems. If you overlay it over Europe, it stretches from Helsinki, Finland to Budapest, Hungary; over North America it stretches from Jacksonville, FL to Toronto, Canada.
2:00 Alaska is 1,717,856 km² (or 663,268 sq mi) - which is about 18 % of the size of the entire USA - but only has a population of 736,081 (in 2020). Habitable....well actually most of it is habitable in theory. If you could move Alaska eastwards to Europe you'd land in Scandinavia, and if you move it even further you'd land in central Asia. The southern coast of Alaska is on the same latitude as Scotland.
Canada is actually about 400,000 km² larger than China and also larger than the USA (Canada is the second largest country on earth after Russia, China is in third place and the USA in 4th). Brazil is the 5th largest and Australia comes at Nr. 6.
Perhaps Plate Techtonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of The Earth by Naomi Oreskies
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Same here, the Sahara and Africa thing blew my mind. I knew it was large and that maps shrink it a bit but seriously that's nuts.
The Sahara is massive and a primary reason that Sub-Saharan Africa was mostly left alone by the conquering empires of the ancient world.
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I like the Peter's projection but like you said, the Mercator is probably better for navigation because the shapes are more accurate.
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7:10 Wait, does it? Which size are you really talking about?
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I'm glad my parents bought me a globe when I was a kid.
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Ya heard it here folks, size does matter 😂
This ideo is shite without explaing WHY the mercartor map is as it is. It's easy to go "muhmah northern bias" on it, but it is the perfect map to plot out a route from point A to Pont B. And that's what it's made for.
that was explained at the end of the video bro waatch until the end before you complain
This is more of a primary source manuscript, still technically a book on Portuguese navigation and cosmography, it's called "Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis"
Also we learned in school with the Mercator Projection, but we had a globe aswell so we had a notion just how huge our navigation along Africa to India was, a 5-6 month voyage.
And it wasn't easy sailing, the Cape of Good Hope was only named that way after we managed to cross it, it was first called by us Cape of Torments, as several of our exploration voyages suffered the destruction of a large portion of small armadas repelled by violent currents and raging winds that crashed and battered our ships against the Capes rocks.
For Non-fiction- A Voyage For Madmen - Peter Nichols
For Diction - Treasure Island - RLS
This video is a bit misguided. Here are the figures: Population Europe 741,854,085, size of Europe 10,180,000 km2 , USA population 341,246,723, size of USA 9,629,091 sq km (but yes, if you go by single country then the USA is the forth largest in the world). Population of Canada 39,107,046, Size of Canada 9,984,670 km, Population Brazil 217,275,879, size Brazil 8,511,965 sq km, Australia 7,682,300 km2, China 9,572,900 km2, Russia 17,098,242 Km²; Africa 30.37 million sq km (largest African country Algeria - 2,381,741 sq. km;) India 3.28 million sq km; Kazakhstan 2,724,900 sq km; etc! In other words EUROPE IS LARGER THAT THE US IN BOTH GEOGRAPHIC AND POPULATION SIZE.
Cartography is the mapping of waterways so there land-focused maps are misleading. Europe is not a Continent. North America is two continents, West of the Mississippi River and East of the Mississippi river.
How about the short story, "He Who Shrank", by Henry Hasse. It's about traveling, and about 'scale', among other strange experiences of size. ;-)
The best thing about Wyoming is Cheyenne's most famous resident, 4014. . .
There's always something wrong with a map, either your're sacrificing shape, area or whatever the third thing that I forgot is. Every map also has it's use ... probably.
Michael Palin made collection of very good Global travel specials. My favourites are : Around The World in 80 Days , Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, Pole to Pole and Great Rail Journeys. ua-cam.com/video/3Lp1Cer6iDY/v-deo.html. ua-cam.com/video/gxStrtKajhA/v-deo.html
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I rather use the Gleason map tho.. it's incredibly accurate, despite it is actually 131 years old..
Globe map is just no different from Mercator in the southern region like Antarctica, South Pacific, and the South Atlantic is like ridiculously not accurate at all.. is this just another sandwich of lies, or wtf with Eurocentric tho.. are they not yet giving up with the colonialization?
Yersterday, I saw a documentation over,, Wyoming,,.. At TV.. They said this state have to less poeple of All US states...
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Wyoming only has 584309 people? I'm in england in a tiny place around 60 square miles and we have around 320,000 people here
What if humans stopped being able to procreate? I'd love to see you wrap your beautiful mind around this video from "The Infographics Show".
This channel has tons of varying content, but they seem to be very excellent with hypotheticals and "what if" videos.
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Study of map is called cartography. Mercator Projection world map, back in year 1569 and greatly distorted the relatable areas of land masses. Look at map is divided two equal slides, equator is the divider, the North and the south, 80% of the landmass is in the North, where Estimate a 90% of the population lives there. The equator is aware you see the most distortion between the north and the south because the land that is in the north. Some people in the Internet say white supremacy changed the way the world map looks like does Lie. Top 12 largest countries in the world in order from top to bottom, Russia, Canada, China, USA, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Algeria, DR Congo, Greenland is 2.166, 086 km2 , 12 largest country in the world and it fits 14 times the continent of Africa, 30,400,000 km², is compose of 54 countries when the equator divides receive about 66% to the North 33 in the South, Africa is the most center continents base on the world map. Of course, Greenland is the most distorted landmass in the world map compare to the most center continent of on the world map. Please don’t allow people to lie to you and that vent truth because I don’t think they understand the word map. The Pacific who holds the greatest landmass in our planet and I’m aware of that. I hope it help.
Dunno if you've seen it: Dymaxion Projection. Buckminster Fuller is responsible for this monstrosity. Confusing as heck, and a nightmare for navigation, but does a pretty decent job of displaying the landmasses correctly (as much as possible in 2D).
How about: ua-cam.com/video/qcKaLCGVg8A/v-deo.html ;) More than likely the true natives of Americas, looooong before the sino/siberian people. But that's another story. Anywho, as a sidenote. They're hokulea navigators, navigating the biggest "continent".
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One thing we can all agree on is that England is the centre of the world.
Three recommended books on sea voyages and navigation; all easily accessible to an intelligent general reader: 'Longitude' by Dava Sobel, an excellent tale of the solving of the greatest scientific problem of its time - how to accurately measure longitude; 'Barrow's Boys' by Fergus Fleming, a gripping tale of filling in the blanks on the map of 1816 and 'The Circumnavigators' by Derek Wilson about the pioneering voyages around the globe in the 16th Century.
Wilderness is for wildlife aka the uncivilized, it is very habitable as that how all our ancestors used to live before the Industrial Revolution.
Literature tip: ""The Island of the Day Before" is not Umberto Eco's most enjoyed work, but it's defenitely spot on the subject and it still is by Eco.
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The jagged edges define us, refine us.
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Very interesting video! One bonus: the USA is one of the countries in the world who have matching rank for population & area: it is 3rd-largest in both population & area. I wonder how many other countries share this property of having the same rank for both population & land area. Vatican City/Holy See is last in both population & land area (unless you count Pitcairn Island as a country).
Genuinely Curious - Why is Africa always in the comparison pool with Countries, when it is, in fact, a whole ass Continent?
(every version of this video compares individual European *countries* to Africa as a whole, I've never seen anyone drag ASIA over to Africa, however)
Nah, they screw like bunnies in Wyoming. The cable TV is really overpriced and crappy, there are no professional sports teams. They sometimes have Mountain Lions strolling through the middle of towns and Black Bears, Rattle Snakes and Wolves aren't far out on the outskirts so people go outside and do things outside, but they don't dawdle. So, like I said, they screw like Bunnies in Wyoming. If the stats are that old it's probably closer to the population of Sacramento Ca by now. Another decade it might be a metropolis.
Alaska, habitable lot of it is. Just look at the natives living at the northern coast. Also, those living off grid. Above the artic circle, or in norhern parts in general, there is quite some ppl living that far north, all around the world. Or all around.. Russia, Norway, Canada, Greenland, Iceland and US, Alaska. Russian ciy Murmansk is the bigger city if the North, where over 300 000 lives,
Living far north, really depens on the person, really, and the will to live there. I live in Norway, though in Oslo, its still cold in winter. But i love the winter, also outdoors. Sleeping outside in the winter is special.
book about travelling "Round Ireland with a Fridge" by Tony Hawks (not the skateboarder)
Very interesting. Love your channel. It's about real stuff!
The way to see the world as it really is? Get a globe. A good one is pretty much an EXACT copy of the size and shape of all countries/continents. The world is NOT flat.
I've been led to believe, by a friend in Brisbane, that the Outback is actually bigger than the whole of Australia... 😛
This isn't related to size, but since the topic is world maps have you ever rotated the map 90° counter clockwise? You'll notice the America's look like a duck.
I've seen videos like that one, but I don't believe I've seen that particular one. It's a very interesting, but it's a bit confusing the way it keeps almost everything within the Mercator projection. It would have been nice if he had shown the globe much more, so as to better get away from the size distortions.
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He was comparing Japan to the east coast, whats funny is Japan and the east coast fall within the same latitudes and their capital cities fall within a few degrees latitude of each other. DC at 38 Lat and Tokyo at 35 lat. idk just random stuff I figured out 🤷♂️
The mercator projection doesn't preserve shape well at all above/below 45deg north and south just look at Canada or Russia on a globe, the further north is massively narrower then on the mercator projection.
Almost all of Alaska is Habitable, but please, we dont want anymore people from the broken and failing lower48,
and we hate the feds treating us like a federal resource colony instead of a free and equal state as well.
vote Alaskan Independence, vote A.I.P.
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Of course these projections influence or perception of the world, and since it is wrong it might be percieved as a problem. The solution has been there for ages though. Globes, we simply need more exposure to globes. They are beautiful things anyway, they tie the room together like a good rug and can be as cheap as 10 dollar. Just buy globes for your children's rooms and for class rooms.
The Mercator projection was devised because you can draw a straight line from A to B, then navigate by following a fixed heading. The path you follow won't be a straight line on the globe but much easier than the constant course adjustments that would entail. It was never intended to be a 'good' depiction of country sizes.
Funny that the United States is about 5 miles from Russia.. 😂😂 anyone else know that or was I just stupid for 33 years 😮😂
My school had a Robertson projection map and a Goode's homolosine (the one with cutouts). But the textbooks had Mercator. Plus a globe. So I always knew Greenland was not that big, are there really people who do not understand what the mercator does to scale?
I say that as a white cis male European: The Mercator projection is the most racist depiction of the world.
It enlarges the north and shrinks the south, thus stating why the north is "naturally" dominating the south. It's all about geography, right?
3:57 really hope he meant Oceania
4:01 missing Spain, Iceland, Fennoscandia and European Russia
Yeah it’s not that the Mercator is wrong, its just that for 99% of people that aren’t crossing the ocean there are many many other options. Peters projection was the one talked about on West Wing when they talked about this.
I’m in GIS so I took a lot of classes on ways maps distort things, and there’s a lot- but there’s even more than the literal ways because of how human perception works, and we can even account for that accurately now. Maps are especially important to get more correct (for the circumstances) because humans on average are much more willing to accept facts presented on maps as true rather than say a white paper. Mercator is just especially egregious in it’s distortion of the global south and that it provides no tangible benefits that couldn’t be accounted for in other ways.
"Wrong" is a term you need to be careful about using in this context. The Mercator Projection is not "wrong" it is an accurate representation of the globe, if you understand how it is projected. And that for of projection is useful for the purpose of naval navigation when the tools of the time were a sextant and compass.
If you have a different need with your map, then you should use a different projection.
Actually, the Earth is flat and I can prove it. The Earth is mostly water correct. Is that water carbonated? No? Flat.
The Mercator distorts size and shape -- it is only 'accurate' at showing relative longitude (and non-polar navigation)
Back in the 80's and 90's in my country we had to use both the Mercator projection maps and the student globe. Past the year 2000, the student globe isn't required and became an item that even the schools themselves often don't have. The increase in numbers of flat earthers here correlates with the absence of the globe being required to be used in class.
Cool
Dava Sobel wrote the book Longitude, which i think is what you're looking for at around 8:00
I read it some years ago and i highly recommend it.
This old fart never knew this. Interesting stuff, keep up what you're doing
Also as the world is a globe 🌍, Russia and USA are closer than it seems on flat map 🗺️ which puts them on opposite sides of the 'world'.
Cool map games. Might want to point out the fact that Africa and South America seem to fit together is no accident. They were once joined together before the modern Atlantic ocean existed. Fossil and geological evidence proves the incredible reality. And shows that continents drift over geological timescales.
I would totally recommend you the fiction book "Cold Skin", very interesting one if you try to understand the hidden meanings.
Someone please explain to me why they can't just have all of the land masses proportionally sized to each other? It might make the oceans look bigger than they actually are, but most people look at maps to get relative scale of the continents, countries, etc. I for one would much rather see a little extra water if they would just stop making greenland its own continent for crying out loud.
Still have a globe, an actual spinning globe accurately representing the earth as it is in 3D. Can't hang it on a wall and bigger than a book but no chance for distortion of size, distance, perspective or scale :)
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it's funny cuz I rarely see this map projection but ppl keep saying this is what I had in my classrooms lol
I started 1st grade in 1962, but I used to read National Geographic starting about 1958, yeah, actually reading although it took a couple years of reading before I fully understood most of what I would read. NG had maps galore, most were the Mercator type. But, I was lucky since I had a globe and my mother started showing me the differences the two maps depicted visually. It really helped me understand the distortion of the flat earth, lol.
Back in the late 50's and early 60's you could get maps at almost any gas station for free. Off the newer Interstate highways you could get state maps that included multiple states or sections of the US as a whole for free. So even the kids of that time were often exposed to maps at an earlier age than I see now. Digital maps on digital devices is a different type of exposure since on the old paper maps, if the family were taking a vacation some of my classmates used to pencil in the routes their family took for comparison. When we moved from Indiana to California, we took the fairly new Interstate called Route 66 in 1962. It wasn't even 100% completed in all areas. Now I look at the decaying remains of the old highway and do get a bit of nostalgic feelings about it. A map's "Key" suddenly became more relevant to me during our move across the states.
I believe it was in a map of the world insert in National Geographic at about the age of 4 or 5 I saw Antarctica spread across the whole bottom of the map and I became confused. I told my mother that National Geographic was wrong, they had to be wrong. That is when my mother showed me the distortion between the globe and the "flat" map and why it was that way. When she explained the longitude lines on the globe and how they get stretched out on a flat paper map, the the widths are distorted. She explained then that if we cut the globe from top to bottom on all of the longitude lines and tried to flatten out the globe, there would be huge gaps at the top and bottom that get smaller toward the equator. A map like that wouldn't be very easy to use or understand.
Just caught up on this video today! There is a book I´d like to recommend about the subject, it´s called "100 Days Between Sea And Sky", from a brazilian navigator called Amyr Klink (my compatriot!). It´s a real tale about one time in the middle of the 80s that he - the author - decided to cross the Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa... alone in a rowing boat (!!!). I´ve had this book since when I was a child, and absolutely love it. Check it out!
Sumatra? That is part of Indonesia. Comparing a province a country to a country -- come on.
I mean the comparison is true -- but don't denigrate a country just to prove a point (not you Ms No Protocol -- the original video)...
Just like people who call Kalimantan, Borneo. Kalimantan is an Indonesian province. Not a WWF program :)
Africa is bigger than them all, you can fit many countries including America and china in it. The maps try to make some countries bigger.
Wyoming “ the drive thru please” state. The only place I have been with no tourist information booths at the border
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I like the 2 dimensional orange peel version ......the orange is a globe shape and is more accurate
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Really want to watch the Great Britain = Westeros video now to see if Westeros is bigger or smaller.
The trick with the mercator map, and most things we use for reference, is that you have to learn how that it represents reality, but is not reality, so you need to know how to read the representation AND THEN translate into a picture of what really going on,
There's a great clip from the West Wing that deals with the wrong map issue.
ua-cam.com/video/eLqC3FNNOaI/v-deo.html
I would have liked him to focus and maybe throw some square km/mi