New Mercator Projections & The Tissot Indicatrix
The introduction of draggable polygons into the Google Maps API has proved rattling pop alongside developers. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 release of developers bring used draggable polygons to demonstrate the effects of Google using the Mercator Projection inwards Google Maps.
Google itself created a demo game, called the Mercator Puzzle. The game uses a release of solid soil shapefiles that when moved along the lines of longitude resize to present the country's right size anywhere on the map.
Darren Wien's has likewise used draggable polygons to practise a Draggable Tissot Indicatrix. This Google Map places a release of circles (all alongside a 500km radius) all across the globe. You tin run into how the Mercator Projection distorts the circles inwards the screenshot above. In the app itself all the circle polygons are draggable. So, alongside this interactive Tissot Indicatrix, you lot tin genuinely movement the circles roughly the map as well as break how they grow as well as shrink along lines of longitude.
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