Ask HN: Which common map projections make Greenland look smaller?

19 pointsposted 17 days ago
by jimnotgym

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17 Comments

Waterluvian

17 days ago

Download QGIS and you can just play with hundreds of projections. If you want Greenland as small as possible, pick a conical or planar projection meant for the southern hemisphere. It’ll pretty much stop existing if done right. If done wrong, it’ll grow to gargantuan proportions and surround us all. But I’m sure you’ve got additional criteria.

(Horray I reached my annual use of my geography degrees early this year!)

nephihaha

16 days ago

Not exactly a map projection, but on this site you can move countries (including Greenland on its own) onto other parts of the world for comparison. You can see that Greenland still looks pretty massive when you move it further south

https://thetruesize.com/

deeg

17 days ago

I've found the Peters projection to be good and fascinating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection

dlcarrier

17 days ago

A conformal conic projection centered around the north pole would draw subequatorial land at a larger scale than Greenland. It doesn't affect the first three rules of real estate, though: location, location, and location

recursivecaveat

17 days ago

I suggest the Goode Homolosine, which thinks so little of Greenland that it bisects it.

grim_io

17 days ago

Well-played, well-meaning presidential advisor!

1attice

16 days ago

Globes are real. Remember globes? Hand him one

chistev

17 days ago

The ones that make Africa look small.