Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- Dig into the inaccuracies of flat maps and how different map designs can shift our point of view.
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Fourteen Greenlands could fit in Africa- but you wouldn’t guess it from most maps of the world. The fact is, every world map humans have ever made is wrong. Actually, it’s impossible to make a flat map of the whole spherical world 100% right. So why do we bother with these inaccurate maps at all? Kayla Wolf explores how even the simplest changes in map design can shift our point of view.
Lesson by Kayla Wolf, directed by Hernando Bahamon, Globizco Studios.
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Big sphere not fit on small rectangle. Simple.
lol🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣🤣
That's what Hulk would say 👀
Why did I watch 5 mins video then, this comment is enough
@Kyle a ball
Thats it
I wish my teachers would ask: "What does that mean? Not important."
Man ! Now that's an underrated comment .
That will save alot of time
42 mins ago!
This is my new mantra.
I wish my parents say that about my marks😇
"An interrupted psuedo-cylindrical equal area projection.......What does that mean ? Not important"
That was a relief for me 😅
Yea😂👍
CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY
That... Whatever it is, will now surely be the answer in the next TedEd Video
"...because the earth is ROUND..."
*multiple flat earthers are typing*
Ofcourse the world is round! Just like a pancake! 😁😁😁
Don’t forget the beveled edge!
But the NASA evidence is just a cgi
*Flat eaters intensifies*
@@muhammadridho7680 *Eats flats*
(if you know the ttg reference:)
It is not flat,It Is a pancake.
I always wondered why Greenland looked so different in every other map.
I wondered why Greenland is iced?
In the map, greenland looks as big as africa lol
@@checcmac8693 because vikings
I was also wondering why Greenland wasnt a continent by the size it is in the map, it looks bigger than Australia!
@@ParthPatel-hl2hj here in India, it looks smaller than Australia lol
I set my home as the centre of a map projection generator. Everything is relative to me, problem solved!
Japan’s way ahead of ya buddy
Serious Choy
No?
@@ilovecairns5181 *gasp*
Hopefully, you live on the edge of my map
Yay
This was a very different style of narration than what Ted-Ed normally does, much more casual one might say and it was rather fresh! The animation and content was awesome as always!❤️❤️
In fact, a map can only be accurate in one of four domains: shape, area, distance, or direction👍
Just like the 4 horsemen
yep i agree
The four Nations lived in harmony
@UCUv657QlyBhAADuHSOufekA, only the Avatar, master of all elements, could stop them
@@truthseeker7815 You mean the globe, master of all four domains?
the person who is voicing this is really good at expressing and stressing words and information. Greatly appreciated how you kept me watching !!
Ted ed is just destroying my reality and reconstructing it
congrats on the heart
Congratulations dude
Is that something worse congratulating? lol
Huh reality...
Just like me with everything
except sometimes I can't reconstruct it
Props to you guys for educating the general public about miscellaneous topics in a wide array of subjects for free. This video was really informative 👏
True , but vsauce had covered this exact topic 10 years ago
@@sciwizShreyasKulkarni Thanks for sharing some good channel I didn't know before. I won't have understood anything 10 years back... i was a little kid then. 🤗
I already knew this, but it’s just an interesting topic, and I like animations lol.
@@mgA757 you're welcome 😁
At 2:04 he has deal with it glasses 🎉
Reason :
Earth is 3-D
Map is 2-D
Save time
3 Dimensional googles like
3D blockbuster Movie theaters
I already know this but I still wanna watch the video cuz I think about this all the time XD
The cube is 3d but you can make it 2d but making a sphere 2d is kind of impossible as you know pi is a irrational number which causes problem in making a sphere to a 2d figure cause the calculation won’t be accurate but we will get close to perfect but never perfect
aren't the pen lines and circles used for maps 1D??
Well you got it wrong, it's not to do with the dimensions, but because you're trying to fit a curved plane to a flat plane, you'd see the same thing with a negatively curved plane (a hyperbolic plane), and that doesn't even link back to itself.
I love Kayla’s humorous writing style!
" an interrupted pseudo-cylindrical equal area projection "
Me: Wow that's a fancy phrase, what is it?
"not important"
Me: (ಠ_ಠ)
Jokes aside the narrator of this video deserves a raise!
That she does.
idk but it might be the thing where they put a source of light inside a globe and put a cylinder outside the globe such that when light is turned on, the globe projects its content on the curved surface of the cylinder and when that curved surface is opened up to make a rectangal, you have your map.
i dont know if i am right but the term cylinder and projection made me think so.
@@pkmkb I liked your thought. I never thought that.
the script-writer is the real one that needs a raise
Yeah, an 18 cent raise...
I thought this was gonna be about political disagreements on land.
Same lol
Whoa ?
Lands still have politics....??
Godammnit
Johnny harris fans
Nope. Just another lecture on whiteness. 😒
@@Krystoff04111 so we're just going to pretend that race didn't have any role in human history? Cause it shouldnt come to a surprise that much of it was influenced by race
The first thing I do when I see a map of the world is check to make sure New Zealand is included.
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Same for Trinidad and Tobago hahahaha
Sometimes I wonder, how people were able to draw maps in the ancient times without seeing the world from above?
They draw coastlines.
Brain... You know that distance btw sun and earth was known in ancient books in Greece and Indian civilizations? Its just crazy how good imagination, calculation those people used to have
They didn't draw maps they way we draw them, instead they'd draw a place, the vague direction you had to go to get to the next place and write the distance in-between the two. It's like when you explain someone how to get somewhere (go 5 minutes in that direction and turn right at the crossing). In that example you also don't use a bird's eye view, you just give directions and rough time estimates
Guessing
I just LOVE this series of animated videos! Many people (companies) were doing it before, but TED just nailed it. Congrats and keep up the good work!
I’m intrigued how did Ptolemy came up with the grid and longitude latitude idea back then that’s soooo awesome considering they didn’t have satellite back then
I love this casual way of explaining, not too rigid and formal that diminishes the fun and excitement
I don't know who looks at the size of things and imagines that the larger ones are more important than the smaller ones.
That's what he said
That's crazy! Lol Never thought of that honestly. 'Cause growing up, it was actually told to us in school that maps aren't an accurate representation of the planet and primarily used for navigatory purposes.
Say that to people who complain about the size of their... higth. In all honestly,it does play a role, size is considered, globaly, as a symbol of superiority, be it having a bigher hight, having a bigger empire or nowadays a bigger economy. Even just having a map focused on europe already sends a message. As someone from a third world nation( Brazil) I can say that it does change the perspective of most, mostly uneducated, people. That said, in this particular case, I'm not sure if a lot can be done,taking into consideration the map does need to have a center somewhere. That said, I don't think mercator is the best map for learning purposes as, for understanding the world, you don't need to have a map that has straight lines as the shorter route, but you can benefit from knowing what nations are bigger, even more so when we talk history and geopolitics
@@casparvoncampenhausen5249 😂😂😂
Land mass equals resources, which means power. This fueled the race for colonialism, and the Mercator Map unwittingly reinforced the perceived image of dominance.
3:21 Well that's one way to go to Nigeria 😂
@TED-Ed The video may cause a slight misunderstanding with regard to great circle navigation. It sounds like the curved line on a flat map for great circle navigation mentioned around 1:40 becomes a straight line under Mercator projection (mentioned around 2:12) but on a Mercator projection, a great circle is still a curved line. Mercator projection just allows people to get from point A to point B by following a single compass bearing, but the result is a longer route than the great circle one.
The animation, the content, the narration & the background music all are top notch♥️♥️. Keep u the good work ted ed
This is why everyone should walk around with a pocket globe, map issues solved.
Huh
but if you walk straight on the globe it looks like you are not walking straight and that looks weird
2:44 One of the funniest narrator so far😂😂
This video has amazing, excellent, incredible subtitles! And I really, really appreciate that. Otherwise also a fantastically informative and entertaining video!
There are so many videos about this and I still watch it
Back in my day, maps had a river, a lake, and a tall mountain, and that's all we needed.
1:29 When she said “because the earth is round” my mind instantly went to the flat earthers
Thank you for transcribing and expanding upon the video that MapMen did on this :P
This blew my mind 🤯 I kinda had an idea in the back of my head but never dug deep. thank you TED-Ed! 👌👍🙏
I actually love this and I read it before in an encyclopedia and it's fun to remember it every once in a while , love your animations !
@Gael salty much?
In school they should teach kids the difference between the real map and the fake map & why we use the fake one I had to learn that by my self
The narration was easy to follow, it was quite amusing. Thanks for making me curious about almost everything.
Reminds me of our Geography lessons. Thank you so much TedEd.🤗🤗🤗
World map exists..
Ted-Ed: I'mma about to end this man's whole career
Why cant it be a women? 😠
@@random20000 why not
Very slick animations!
The video is outstanding and became even more compelling with all the excellent animations and enthusiastic narration. This is the video I needed to conclude the lesson on cartographic projections. 🙂
The video quality and commentary is amazing.
I never noticed just how distorted maps are until I tried putting together a 3d globe puzzle. I was amazed at how tiny the USA really is, especially when compared to South America.
Um...hello, you're right! Btw, South America is a continent. The USA is a country that's a PART of a continent called North America. Just an fyi.
I liked how the narration was fast nd clever. Its something u don't see tedED do. Its good to see a change
The narration of this one is so fun and engaging! I like it.
I love this narrorator, and I think this vid was amazing. It was cool how it was explained.
This is really helpful love to you guys!
I agree
I always thought about this! Thanks Ted!!
I learned so much from the video, and loved how it made me laugh too :-) such great content!
i’m literally a cartographer why am i watching this?
Because you like maps and videos about them, perhaps?
only Ted Ed map is correct all others are flawed!!
FACTS!🥂
I didn't not that the Mercator projection eliminated the turning-thing-traight-line problem! Wow! Learned something new today!
Very informative 👏
Stunning work ...💖
Imagine this problem but with mapping the prehistoric past, especially Pangea.
I love the way she narrates it, she makes it fun.
That's the most diplomatic discussion of the Gall Peters map! Great video!
0:40 I love the not-so-subtle shade there
I’ve always been interested in maps so I immediately clicked on this video when I saw it.
This problem can also be used to demonstrate the curvature of the Earth to people who claim the Earth is flat...
hi there. Am a fellow curve earther
me too
Thanks for your wonderful comments and ratings. I really appreciate ❤️.
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With all respect to all voices of Ted ed but this voice is the best it catches our ears with different modulations of voice at the same time keeping it to the point
I loved the narration both funny and educational 💕
Flat earthers with their reverse logic be like: It is impossible to make accurate map on flat surface but it can be made accurately through a globe. So, earth is flat.
It's like what happened with Heliocentrism and Geocentrism. People used to explain the stars and planets movements with extremely complex mathematics but then Tycho Brahe, Copernico and Galileo argued (and proved with data) that the math was much simpler by putting the Sun in the center: because the Sun is in the center (technically it isn't, both centers of the orbits are inside the Sun, but whatever).
@@antoniousai1989
What you are trying to say actually...
First, they should have covered the Robinson projection. It's a good compromise and gets the landmasses closer to their real sizes. National Geographic uses the Robinson projection.
Second, creating a new projection because you believe some people feel superior based on the Mercator is just nuts. Create accurate projections because they get you closer to the truth, not because of what you think some people may think about current projections.
My thoughts exactly... the historical revisionsm they are pulling up is messing with science and that's a huge problem for all mankind.
I especially like the interrupted projections such as the Goode Homolocine and the Dymaxion. I also really like the Peirce quincuncial, which is a square shape and tileable. I once edited it such that Antarctica isn't cut to pieces.
I like the Goode Homolocine quite a bit as well!
Loved the narration! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
The people who spent time making it: Am I a joke to you?
I absolutely loved this video! The animation was amazing, and more of this narrator please!
Kudos to the awesome narrator! Great job on the animation as well!
Everyone is complimenting the narration. I agree with them! Stressing certain words, her reading style and attitude is perfect. Great for kids to learn too. Good job.
I have an idea.... Let's flatten the Earth so we could create an accurate map of it.
Like a pancake? That's already on the UN Flag 😂
Good idea, but you're a few thousand years late. Euclid and other ancient Greek mathematicians have already implemented it. It's called Euclidean Geometry-"Geometry" literally means "earth measurements"-and it assumes that the Earth's surface is flat. We've been using it for thousands of years now. We teach it to all our kids, then complain when some of them grow up believing that the Earth is flat.
TLDR: Maps are 2d, and the world is 3d, so, in order to make the world into a flat space, you need to distort it in some way.
My favorite channel. Thanks
The playfull tone of her voice makes this video very fun. I think in general the monotone and straightforwardness is needed in TED-Ed. But this king of change is quite nice every once in a while and kinda makes it more engaging.
Wait i thought this was "Map Men" video but it was actually ted-ed. A welcome surprise nonetheless
This was a very different style of narration than what Ted-Ed normally does, much more casual one might say and it was rather fresh!! The person voicing this is really good at expressing and stressing words and information. The animation and content was awesome as always!❤️❤️
I like the way she narrates
Very informative ty!
I like the new narrator's voice! 🙂
Oh and brilliant content as always.
I think the Map Men said it best: a map in a classroom is not meant to teach kids navigation, it’s meant to give an understanding of the world around them.
I see I've found another Map Men fan. Good on you for watching quality CZcams content.
The narrator must be enjoying when she says the word "WRONG"! I could hear so much pleasure when she says that.
Wow, that authagraph map is beautiful. Is there anywhere we can find that specific continent-coded design? Would love one for my wall.
Love from wrong map believer♥️
Ted-Ed finally made a humorous video nice start.
The humor in the video is soooooooooooo good!
Awesome script and narration for an great video
So with map projections instead of "get woke go broke" it's "get woke get lost".
Flat-earthers reading only the title:“I KNEW IT!“
Watching the actual video:“…not important“
awesome video, as always :)
I have always imagined why the map is the way it is, and not up side down, because even if it was made that way, it would make no difference.
I know ya’ll probably won’t be making another video on geography / cartography so soon, but it might be cool to discuss in the future the fact that getting exact measurements of shorelines is impossible.
Ted-ed has got the best animators in it's studios
True
Wait....your profile picture.......I remember seeing it somewhere but I cannot exactly remember what it is
@@shivannapv4262 can you name the channel where you viewed my comment is it shulkercraft?
@@shivannapv4262 who me?
Well, you guys either you guys changed your profile images or I have terrible memory but Idk who or what the profile image I was referring to lol
This was amazingly well done for a 5 minute video 👌
interrupted psuedo-cylindrical equal area projection meaning :
an equal-area projection on which most meridians and parallels appear as curved lines. It has a configurable standard parallel along which there is no distortion.
Google rocks
Google rocks
@@oliverelfenbaum7119 stop
Earth is round.
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That soft tone at 3:39 "could this be... the perfect map? Well, no" - I love it!😂
*The narrator is chilling while narrating*
Loving the art here!
Ted ed:Maps are not everytime accurate.
People : Yeah that's why we have GPS.... 😎😂😂..... Just kidding
Nice information TED-ED.
The energy in this video is electric.
There are Robinson map, van der Grinten and Winkel Tripel's map too.
I like this narrator. She has fun with it. Really brings personality to the lessons
Map men, map men, map, map, map, men, men