That doesn’t make sense. The relationship between Florida (for example) and the Prime Meridian did not remain intact after the rotation whereas all the other locations maintained their relationship.
It's a weird trick of the projection, but if you look at the North Pole on a globe, with the Prime Meridian as the equator, then it really does look like that. The west coast and Mexico get squished a lot.
That’s the best I can think too. Europe “west coast” looks least distorted because it’s “on the equator” the tropics are starting to look funky and the polar latitudes are really stretched. I’d love to see the longitude lines from before the rotation in the new projection.
It does get rotated, it's just that a place like Oregon, at about 120 degrees west, is actually pretty closer to 180 degrees west (which is the new equator), it's not just distant from the prime meridian at 0 degrees longitude. The surface of a sphere is not a rectangle!
Yeah, it’s weird. It just gets rotated from the northern hemisphere to the southern. The northern 90 longitude keeps its orientation and slides straight south. It’s due to the choice of axis for the rotation.
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