http://www.upworthy.com/we-have-been-mislead-by-an-erroneous-map-of-the-world-for-500-years?c=ufb2 (http://www.upworthy.com/we-have-been-mislead-by-an-erroneous-map-of-the-world-for-500-years?c=ufb2)
Click the link then watch the vid. I must be late on this. Unbelievable?
Obviously that video has been made for entertainment rather than being a good overview of the many issues that result from different projection systems - it's something that I quite literally deal with every single day with my work.
It's not really worth going into detail about why it's just 'not that simple' to change things, I think this comic just about sums it up :3
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_projections.png)
But there's no Australia ):
@JC Hi. :3
The thing is some bodies of land are completely out of proportion, like Greenland...I didn't know that. The other stuff is just interesting; how we project the map and what effects that has.
Well holy shit, some guy making a world map in 1569 got the sizes wrong.
Don't think he had google earth to refer to.