It looks like there’s Canada to cross before reaching the US. Am I missing something?
Waterluvian 4 days 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!)
nephihaha 4 days 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
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
recursivecaveat 4 days ago [-]
I suggest the Goode Homolosine, which thinks so little of Greenland that it bisects it.
deeg 5 days ago [-]
I've found the Peters projection to be good and fascinating
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...
(Horray I reached my annual use of my geography degrees early this year!)
https://thetruesize.com/
Scroll down and choose a projection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection
This is the Whitehouse: https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/
This is the White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
They are not the same.