This Map Helps Fascists - Nightingale

This Map Helps Fascists - Nightingale

The Size of Countries is Not Meaningful in Any Sense You’ve surely seen this map or a variation of it somewhere on the internet. If, like me, you’re a professional information designer, you know it’s part of an entire genre, including animated versions of it: Or the effect of distortion on simple concepts like Great Circle Distance. This is the area within 5000km of Paris on a Mercator projection emphasizing the geographic distortion that happe…