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Jeff Desjardins: Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa (Visual Capitalist)
Jeff Desjardins: Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa (Visual Capitalist)
The reason for this is that the familiar Mercator map projection tends to distort our geographical view of the world in a crucial way — one that often leads to misconceptions about the relative sizes of both countries and continents. […] The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million sq km (11.7 million sq mi) — enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, combined.
·visualcapitalist.com·
Jeff Desjardins: Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa (Visual Capitalist)
Lights at sea
Lights at sea
A map of the world's lighthouses. Where the data is available (and you can see it’s quite sparse for some areas of the world), the map shows the location, color, range, and flashing frequency/pattern of each lighthouse. The color and flashing pattern of a lighthouse is called the characteristic. Each lighthouse has a different characteristic so that mariners can tell them apart and to indicate different water areas.
·geodienst.github.io·
Lights at sea
1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940
1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940
Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of every building in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map. Zoom in! Every dot is a photo.
·1940s.nyc·
1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940