Talk:3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres

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Where's Greenland? SubtrEM (talk) 20:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

It is on the backside of North America globe of course. --Kynde (talk) 07:49, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

My first edit! Hope it's ok! Jkusa.jr 08:12, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Wait, maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like there's actually a good map idea here? If you made proper globes centered on each continent.... Does this exist? 2601:241:8002:3E0:CE5:D9D:CF64:76FD 21:36, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Well... that is what a globe is. You just turn it until it is on the continent you wish and look from the right angel ;-) Drawing a globe on a paper does nothing to remove the distortion from normal flat maps. --Kynde (talk) 07:49, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Not sure what the joke is! Another dis of the concept of continents? 2A09:BAC3:9C1B:1955:0:0:286:B1 22:01, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Yet another map that ignores/erases New Zeeland.

No it doesn't ignore it. Just like Greenland is on the other side of the globe in North America so is NZ

on the other side of Australias globe. You cannot either see Sydney or Tasmania or LA or other Western states. In Europe you cannot see most of Scandinavia (although the important part ... Denmark ;-) and Madagascar is also left our near Africa as is the entire middle east and most of Russia. --Kynde (talk) 07:49, 31 July 2025 (UTC)