16 comments

  • Waterluvian 19 hours ago ago

    Download QGIS and you can just play with hundreds of projections. If you want Greenland as small as possible, pick a conical or planar projection meant for the southern hemisphere. It’ll pretty much stop existing if done right. If done wrong, it’ll grow to gargantuan proportions and surround us all. But I’m sure you’ve got additional criteria.

    (Horray I reached my annual use of my geography degrees early this year!)

  • al_borland a day ago ago

    I’m not sure what your intent is, but I think the interest in Greenland is more about location than size.

    This projection makes it look small, but highlights how Greenland sits right between Russia and the lower 48 of the US.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections#/media...

    • code_martial 15 hours ago ago

      It looks like there’s Canada to cross before reaching the US. Am I missing something?

  • dlcarrier 12 hours ago ago

    A conformal conic projection centered around the north pole would draw subequatorial land at a larger scale than Greenland. It doesn't affect the first three rules of real estate, though: location, location, and location

  • tetris11 19 hours ago ago

    https://earth.nullschool.net/

    Scroll down and choose a projection

  • recursivecaveat 21 hours ago ago

    I suggest the Goode Homolosine, which thinks so little of Greenland that it bisects it.

  • deeg a day ago ago

    I've found the Peters projection to be good and fascinating

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection

  • nephihaha 3 hours ago ago

    Not exactly a map projection, but on this site you can move countries (including Greenland on its own) onto other parts of the world for comparison. You can see that Greenland still looks pretty massive when you move it further south

    https://thetruesize.com/

  • dyingkneepad a day ago ago
  • grim_io 20 hours ago ago

    Well-played, well-meaning presidential advisor!

  • chistev a day ago ago

    The ones that make Africa look small.