Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

[Synobun]

That's been posted before

In a thread hurting for content, I'm sure we'll survive.

 

[Arwon]

This is a page from one of my chapters in our football stats book, my attempt to map the dividing line between Rugby League and Australian Rules Football for the purposes of a chapter about measuring fandoms.

Drawn in MS Paint, I kept expecting to be asked for templates so they could re-do them but it just never happened.

 

[Takhisis]

If anybody asks it's a stylistic choice, man. Problem Sleuth was drawn in MS Paint and it remains one of the best webcomics I've ever (re-)read.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The map redrawn with the oceans as the focus.

 

[Takhisis]

What's the name of that projection?

 

[Arakhor]

Athelstan Spilhaus made that map? So... a South African cartographer with an Anglo-Saxon first name produced a French-language map... Sounds legit.

 

[Lexicus]

Athelstan Spilhaus made that map? So... a South African cartographer with an Anglo-Saxon first name produced a French-language map... Sounds legit.

Not that exact map, IIRC he just invented that projection.

 

[Hrothbern]

Some more ocean

 

[Takhisis]

Wait, what? Northern Ireland has a ban on physical punishment of children but the rest of the UK doesn't? This would buck all known trends.

 

[really]

I don't think that is correct.
Scotland banned it last year but it was still legal in the rest of the UK.

Ireland repealed the law allowing it in 2000 but common law allowed it until it was explicitly banned in 2015.

 

[metatron]

Some more ocean

View attachment 505718

Back in the day in frequently trolled with this map - the version accurate at the time that is.
We have made huge gains. Which should be cause for celebrations.

Note to self:
Talk to Estonia Ball.

Estonia Ball listened.

But if you really want ocean, you can have a map with lots of ocean:

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You can do better than that @metatron

The arrow is at Point Nemo - the furthest spot from land on the planet and the target graveyard for many a satellite.

 

[Berzerker]

http://jcourt.net/1531-map-of-an-ice-free-antarctica-2/

why does Antarctica show up on a map centuries before the continent was discovered?

 

[Hrothbern]

http://jcourt.net/1531-map-of-an-ice-free-antarctica-2/

why does Antarctica show up on a map centuries before the continent was discovered?

I would love the scenario where Antarctica was discovered and mapped by some ancient culture.

However
There is in Antarctica a mountain Ptolemy,
Ptolemy (2nd century AD) took over the idea of Aristotle (4th century BC), that there must be a vast landmass in the South as counterweight for the big landmasses in Northern Latitudes.

 

[Silurian]

http://jcourt.net/1531-map-of-an-ice-free-antarctica-2/

why does Antarctica show up on a map centuries before the continent was discovered?

Many old maps have a fair bit of artistic license about them. Here be dragons.

 

[metatron]

You can do better than that @metatron

Well, "better" depends on what we are looking for.
What i posted is the "water hemisphere": A half of Earth selected in such a way to maximise water sea area.

 

[warpus]

The main part of my city's river plan

We are the 2nd best London in the world

 

[W|M]

 

[Takhisis]

OK, the last one is a regular world map flipped horizontally. What are the other two?

 

[BenitoChavez]

OK, the last one is a regular world map flipped horizontally. What are the other two?

The first one is Europe only with certain landmasses replaced with others from around the globe. Like India and Sri Lanka have replaced Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Antartica replaces Africa. New Zealand replaces the UK. Etc. I'm not quite sure what happened to Denmark and the Black Sea though...

No clue on the second one.