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

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!)

tetris11• 6 months ago

https://earth.nullschool.net/

Scroll down and choose a projection

dlcarrier• 6 months 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

nephihaha• 6 months 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/

1attice• 6 months ago

Globes are real. Remember globes? Hand him one

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

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