Source: www.npr.org - Wednesday, January 28, 2015
India Grows, Russia Shrinks: Mapping Countries By Population January 28, 2015 2:33 PM ET Michaeleen Doucleff Twitter Can you find Australia and Canada? The cartogram, made by Reddit user TeaDranks, scales each country's geographic area by its population. (Click through to see the high-resolution map.) TeaDranks/via Imgur World maps distort. It's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper). Some parts of the sphere are going to get distorted. (On most maps, Canada and Russia get puffed up, while countries along the equator get shrunk.) Every now and then, though, you stumble across a map that enlightens. A look back in time: This cartogram resizes each country by its population in 2005. Paul Breding That's how we felt when we saw the awesome map made by Reddit user TeaDranks . The map resizes countries based on their population. It's simple: Each square represents 500,000 people. TeaDranks posted the graphic on Reddit's map porn page on Jan. 16. He calls it his "magnum opus." "Wikipedia was my source," TeaDranks wrote. "I was inspired by this map which is now ten years old. My map's scale is twice as large as the old one's." The older version of the graphic was made in 2005 by the cartographer Paul Breding. You can buy a copy of that map on Amazon. Shots - Health News Where The Smokers Are Now: Bulgaria, Greece And Macedonia But to be more accurate, both maps aren't
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India Grows, Russia Shrinks: Mapping Countries By Population January 28, 2015 2:33 PM ET Michaeleen Doucleff Twitter Can you find Australia and Canada? The cartogram, made by Reddit user TeaDranks, scales each country's geographic area by its population. (Click through to see the high-resolution map.) TeaDranks/via Imgur World maps distort. It's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper). Some parts of the sphere are going to get distorted. (On most maps, Canada and Russia get puffed up, while countries along the equator get shrunk.) Every now and then, though, you stumble across a map that enlightens. A look back in time: This cartogram resizes each country by its population in 2005. Paul Breding That's how we felt when we saw the awesome map made by Reddit user TeaDranks . The map resizes countries based on their population. It's simple: Each square represents 500,000 people. TeaDranks posted the graphic on Reddit's map porn page on Jan. 16. He calls it his "magnum opus." "Wikipedia was my source," TeaDranks wrote. "I was inspired by this map which is now ten years old. My map's scale is twice as large as the old one's." The older version of the graphic was made in 2005 by the cartographer Paul Breding. You can buy a copy of that map on Amazon. Shots - Health News Where The Smokers Are Now: Bulgaria, Greece And Macedonia But to be more accurate, both maps aren'tfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1CN5l1L
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