22/08/2026
Your map has been lying to you. 🗺️👀
I built (well, told Claude to write) a little map toy that lets you pick any country and watch the whole world re-project around it — so that country finally shows up at its actual size and shape. Then it draws the "normal map" version on top as a ghost.
Spoiler: Greenland's map-shape is about 16× the area of its real one. Sixteen. Did Mercator really say "make it huge, nobody will check."
Try it with your own country and prepare to feel either smug or betrayed. Link in comments
(Dark mode and a Google-Maps-style light mode, because I have standards. Press G to toggle the ghost if you want to feel something.)
https://oblique-mercator.gary-afa.workers.dev/
