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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You think the treatment of GREENLAND is bad? See if you can find the tiny spike that the peninsula and hundreds of islands that is Denmark has been reduced to on this ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Greenland is the most obvious (to my eye) case of the distortion that Mercator projection causes at near-polar latitudes.

I'm not anywhere near as confident that I could say what shape Denmark is at the best of times.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's completely fair ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I could say what shape Denmark is

Middle finger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Netherlands is not more than a squiggly line here, looks like we need to claim some more sea.