- The Dark Lord ☑️ ( @TheRaven@lemmy.ca ) 26•10 days ago
Who builds a lake on a cliff?
- Wolf314159 ( @Wolf314159@startrek.website ) English20•10 days ago
Why bother making this at all if it’s not to scale? Sure, nobody expects the horizontal scale to be the same as the vertical scale. Vertical exaggeration is common when displaying profiles or cross sections, but those are generally still considered to be at a particular scale. But, if the vertical scale isn’t consistent, then what even is the point of the graphic? Just list some numbers in a table. Putting this in graphical form without a consistent scale is just lying and lazy.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 8•10 days ago
You don’t seem too enthusiastic about this map.
- Chronographs ( @Chronographs@lemmy.zip ) English3•10 days ago
It looks like these are two separate graphics spliced together, everything on the right seems to be to scale (or reasonably close to it)
- Wolf314159 ( @Wolf314159@startrek.website ) English3•10 days ago
I didn’t break out the ruler or anything, just going off of the pixelated disclaimer at the bottom.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•10 days ago
The disclaimer doesn’t say it’s inconsistent, though. Just exaggerated, which is good because otherwise everything except maybe Baikal would be a horizontal line.
- Wolf314159 ( @Wolf314159@startrek.website ) English1•10 days ago
It says “not to scale”, which in the world of mapping means very specifically that the scale is inconsistent. An exaggerated vertical scale would not include the disclaimer for “not to scale” and is very common, as I already said. It’s common for maps showing vertical reliefs like profiles or cross sections to have a horizontal scale of something like 1:20 while the vertical dimension has a scale of 1:5 or 1:10, which would still be considered “to scale”. If you still can’t fit everything on a single sheet, you can add a break line or a jog to indicate a discontinuity, but the map would still be “to scale”. This map is “not to scale” because it says so, so the only real information we should be able to glean from it are the connections between things; size, angles, and lengths as are meaningless because that’s what “not to scale” is specifically warning us about.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•9 days ago
I think we actually have to get out a ruler here. In the world of infographics, “not to scale” usually just means one dimension is at a different ratio from the other(s).
- Wolf314159 ( @Wolf314159@startrek.website ) English1•9 days ago
This is a map enthusiast community, not a lying with statistics and graphic design community.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•9 days ago
Then go yell at OP about posting a non-map.
There’s no lie here, nobody thought lakes are actually finger-shaped in cross-section.
- OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) English4•10 days ago
Lots of criticisms but still really cool. I’d love to see one to scale as well (for width and depth)
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•10 days ago
Bolivia is weird.
Missed opportunity to include the dead sea.
- sem ( @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•10 days ago
Why is Lake Michigan combined with Lake Huron when all the other lakes are individual?
- Bldck ( @Bldck@beehaw.org ) English1•9 days ago
Huron and Michigan are hydrologically a single lake because the flow of water through the straits keeps their water levels in overall equilibrium.
- huquad ( @huquad@lemmy.ml ) English1•10 days ago
My favorite lake is the Pacific. Its like the king of the lakes.