I am fascinated by alternative centering on maps, and this one captures my imagination: "the world according to fish", showing the rivers, lakes and oceans, with ocean floor elevations. The world aquatic. - ThreadSky

c0nc0rdance.bsky.social • 193 days ago

I am fascinated by alternative centering on maps, and this one captures my imagination: "the world according to fish", showing the rivers, lakes and oceans, with ocean floor elevations.

The world aquatic.

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tharrison.bsky.social•193 days ago

Wait, fish are flat Earthers?

moonmayor.bsky.social•193 days ago

Really shows how the land just mucks things up

peatbogsoldier.bsky.social•192 days ago

Fantastic. Forces you to view the world from a completely different perspective. Love it!

jenhadfield.bsky.social•193 days ago

you might like https://worldmapper.org/ if you've not seen it already

nordfolcian.bsky.social•193 days ago

Now, I do like this. Too many of we humans think the whole universe is seen only from one perspective - ours.
But there are others.

laresomebody.bsky.social•193 days ago

As a kid, I had a map of the Indian Ocean from National Georgraphic. Awesome map.

dollyeldritch.bsky.social•193 days ago

hell yeah new zealand is actually on this one

i-rohl.bsky.social•193 days ago

What's going on w/ Australia?

fifaldara.bsky.social•193 days ago

I thought "Hey, the Suez canal is missing!", but that Australia isn't surrounded by water is an even more glaring omission :D

judenonesuch.bsky.social•193 days ago

Similar deal to what happens to Antarctica (which you can see the actual shape of on the original post) in a usual N-S pole based projection

judenonesuch.bsky.social•193 days ago

To turn the globe into a map, you have to tear it open and flatten it out, and you can make your choice about where you tear. We usually go straight down the Pacific ocean to avoid as much land being torn. This one
This one’s a little harder to interpret because the actual map area doesn’t end up

judenonesuch.bsky.social•193 days ago

being a rectangle and it hasn’t been torn along a straight line – e.g. looking at the top, we have cut down to the bottom of South America and opened the west edge out to the left. There’s loads of white space which is ‘nowhere’ (- it can be more helpful to make this a different colour!): the very

judenonesuch.bsky.social•193 days ago

top of the west coast of Columbia/Panama (i.e. the highest bit of water just left-of-centre) is *immediately next to* irl where Panama joins the north coast of Columbia off to the right-of-centre

ksciencearts.bsky.social•193 days ago

Oooooooo I adore this

impossiblekid.bsky.social•193 days ago

It wasn't until my early twenties that I learned I had been mercator-projectionpilled into thinking the world looks radically different than it really is.

c0nc0rdance.bsky.social•193 days ago

Totally fair. Globes are great, but I don't think our brains store the perspectives & proportions as well as they do for flat maps.

tujungadude.bsky.social•193 days ago

You just need the 3D brain storage upgrade. It does require a 4-dimensional skull, but once you’ve got that the upgrade process is a breeze.

orpach.bsky.social•193 days ago

Same, but for how far north I am.

Until I had to read and retype GPS co-ords for a job, I never realized I was about the same latitude as Edmonton. Even on a globe, I'd never seen the two together.

thundergoose.bsky.social•193 days ago

Personally I prefer a Gall-Peters. It really shocks people to see the correct relative sizes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection_SW.jpg

emeal.bsky.social•6 days ago

suddenly animals who travel upstream to lay eggs make sense, it would be way harder for other fish to eat them.

rebelipar.bsky.social•193 days ago

God I love maps

rebelipar.bsky.social•193 days ago

I forget what things are called, but I remember where they are. So basically Google maps is my lifeline

c0nc0rdance.bsky.social•193 days ago

I can't remember my sister's address, but I have a star on it on Google Maps, so I just use the entirety of global mapping data produced by satellites in outer space to find it.

snargleplax.bsky.social•193 days ago

Don't forget, it all falls apart if the system doesn't compensate for relativistic effects

c0nc0rdance.bsky.social•193 days ago

Oh great, now I can't tell if my mail will be at rest relative to the spatial reference frame of her mailbox.

snargleplax.bsky.social•193 days ago

What can I say? The laws of physics are the same all over.

pnictogen-wing.bsky.social•193 days ago

that's really good, and I do like to see unusually oriented maps myself. I should get an "upside down" (i.e. South upward) world map for the house

izanamic.bsky.social•193 days ago

Nice

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