Editing Talk:2911: Greenland Size

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Anyone else really wanting to know the radius for which the title text is true? I got [[356]]'d
[[User:Rxy|Rxy]] ([[User talk:Rxy|talk]]) 20:28, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
:It depends on the size of the map. [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 03:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)


New life goal: Go to the poles, find the ring that is mapped to-scale, and color it. Require all satellite maps to be modified to add this stripe of color. [[User:PotatoGod|PotatoGod]] ([[User talk:PotatoGod|talk]]) 22:37, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

This is clearly based on Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893) which discusses a map made at a scale of 1:1. [[User:Take The A Train To Watertown|Take The A Train To Watertown]] ([[User talk:Take The A Train To Watertown|talk]]) 22:49, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Which latitude of Greenland is 1660miles across? I'm noodling around and can find a spot in the northern part which is - more or less - 1660*km* wide, but nothing close to that number in miles. {{unsigned ip|172.68.144.140|23:01, 25 March 2024}}

Hmm. First time making a comment here, thought that the title text was referencing that the Mercator projection goes to infinity at the poles, and there would be a ring where the map’s unseen parts is 1:1 to the real world. {{unsigned ip|172.71.214.100|01:40, 26 March 2024}}

Yeah, I think the explanation is wrong; there is a ring around the poles which is the same size on the map as it is in real life, because the mercader projection stretches it out. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.50|172.71.150.50]] 05:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm amazed at how nitpickingly annoying Cueball can get with respect to mapmaking. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.134.38|162.158.134.38]] 08:42, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

"there is a ring around the poles which is the same size on the map"  - in standard Mercator projection 1m wide map would need to be kilomenters if not thousands km high to show 1m ring on poles. Usually cutout is at 80-85 latitude {{unsigned ip|162.158.102.110|12:12, 26 March 2024}}
:A 1 meter long circle would only be ~16cm from the pole, not 100's of meters or km. [[User:SDSpivey|SDSpivey]] ([[User talk:SDSpivey|talk]]) 03:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
::Above is saying how big the map would be to show the bit where the 1m-on-the-ground exists. (It needs to distort latitude (height), as you close in on the pole, to match the distortion of narrowing longitude (against constant width) and thus maintain shape plus rhumb-line consistency.)
::This has nothing to do with the on-ground radius around the pole. Or the distance from such a map's 'pole edge'. (Intuitively: it maintains shape, though the singularity of the pole will confound this, so the ~16cm radius will mean about 16cm from the edge to maintain an arbitrary small-scale graticule-to-rectangle geometric translation. But others have actually calculated this, it looks like.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.163.24|172.70.163.24]] 06:43, 28 March 2024 (UTC)


The latitude band would actually be one Earth's radius (6,378 km) high on the map. {{unsigned ip|172.69.223.158|12:36, 26 March 2024}}

: Not actually true; the Mercator projection is logarithmic so it would actually be a reasonable-if-large amount high.<br/>For a small angle ε from the pole, we have sin(ε)≈ε and cos(ε)≈1, so y=R*ln((1+cos(ε)/sin(ε))≈R*ln(2/ε); the 1m ring would have a colatitude (angle from pole) of ε≈1m/40000km=1/(4e7), which means y≈R*ln(2/ε)≈R*ln(8e7)=ln(8e7)/(2*pi)≈2.896 (meters), i.e. the 1-to-1 band on a 1m wide map would be slightly under 3 meters above the equator (and a corresponding amount below).<br/>It turns out that a map 3 meters high and 50 cm wide centered at the equator would end almost exactly at the 1:1 scale band (a few millimeters short of it). --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.80|172.68.110.80]] 12:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm slightly tempted to add a list of possible uses for a 1:1 scale map of the world.  All that I'm coming up with are essentially about its being a ginormous sheet of paper, with its being a ''map'' being irrelevant. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 17:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
:A replacement planet? Either flat (work out which mapping compromise would suit its population best) or get around the "no flat map can..." stuff by making it into an actual globe. You might need to break out artificial gravity equipment (and pursuade people not to wear sharp footwear?), or just take advantage of it being paper-thin, as well as no pesky uncrossable ocean (if you're allowed to 'step on blue') or awkward mountains (you can't actually trip on gradient lines/etc!), so the experience would be ....interesting. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.163.24|172.70.163.24]] 19:02, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

:Someone's building the world at 1:1 in Minecraft, does that count? Additionally, 1:1 maps of smaller things certainly do exist, though these are more usually called mockups or engineering diagrams. A 1:1 map of a mall was used in Better Call Saul to plot a heist, and sometimes historical sites have 1:1 maps of buildings and streets to show where they were once located. [[User:Take The A Train To Watertown|Take The A Train To Watertown]] ([[User talk:Take The A Train To Watertown|talk]]) 19:42, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Because any map that shows a 'point pole' as a measurable length must have a latitude (or other 'small circle', in oblique or transverse versions) where map.width>ground.distance changes to map.width<ground.distance (on any map for which 'equatorial' width is not greater than the respective equitorial circumference, of course!), there are many more map-types that are guaranteed to have a 1:1 relationship. A bit more complex for some, like those with composite 'orange peel' ovals, but it takes an undifferentiatable scaling algorithm to skip over an exactly matching line, or a choice to truncate the map before showing it. (Even a technically 'half the world, only at infinity' map, like a gnomonic will have a matching circle somewhere, given sufficient extent; 'gnomonic equator' is infinitely circumferential, so somewhere between there and the gnomonic-'pole' (inclusively), is a matching distance to reality, whatever the enlargement/reduction factor.) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.11|172.70.91.11]] 15:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)