How Maps LIE To You 

A hilarious modern instance of this was apple or google had a fake town, but someone actually named a store after then town on the map so it nolonger qualified as fake for the purposes of the attepted copyright strike between the two companies.

Why they sue another for copying while the map it produce based on copying too!?

@@simplyyellow6240 There is legal copying (obtaining a license), and illegal copying.

@@jasonreed7522 I think you are thinking of Agloe, New York. That wasn't recent though.

@@axmajpayne that is probably the case since i know it was in the north east (NY or PA), but i said modern not recent.

It's also not the only photo showing the entire Earth, as many actually believe!

@@Perririri It was the _first_ photo that showed basically the entire Earth from the daytime side, I wanna say. You look at earlier photos, like "Earthrise", and they show Earth lit on one side with the other in shadow.

@@MarsJenkar that is to say, the spacecraft occulted the sun to take the picture.

@@UnkownRU-vidr286 he’s smarter then you’ll ever be

@@chemicalfrankie1030 There is no up or down in space.

+Brett Anon. You mean southern ocean.

I once asked my geography teacher why thatt is (little land in the south). She made me count out all continents that have mass south the equator, idk why. I am still very frustrated over that encounter whenever someone brings it up

@@covellin_ that's a really dumb thing to do (the teacher requesting that). Just chalk it up to "I dont know, kid, here do this thing that is kind of like learning something, even if unrelated, and get out of my face".

@@runderdfrech3560 no, they're talking about the things they used the words for.

I’m a bit confused by what you mean

Thats how ancient China made maps, and being used to the North is up orientation it makes the south up feel strange and alien just because its different.

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Wdym corrected? The map commonly used today flipped is just as correct like our common one.

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@@NikiKovn Bold of you to assume he had one to begin with

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@@TriguredAzAndOthers Well, the world is a 3 dimensional ball. Can't do that in 2d without having half of it invisible. Which is incorrect again. But elaborate, what is correct?

Euler Spiral projection is my favorite.

@@kyrilliskalehtanis7140 It's 2022 use google earth.

@@appa609 but that's not a map (2d projection) ...

Hell yeah I love Atlas Pro too

@@UnkownRU-vidr286 snap back to reality.

What's more interesting is the Lower Nile is on the north, and Upper Nile is south.

In other words the Northern hemisphere looks like it has more land than the Southern. Because it does.

This is actually not factually accurate. The area of antarctica on a full mercator projection is infinite. All mercator maps you've seen truncate at an arbitrary latitude line on each side and these choices dictate which hemisphere looks bigger.

Well actually our Earth is kind of an inverted 🍐 shape though! But we cant actually see that because the difference are so less! Yeah, Earth is not a perfect sphere!

if you look at some of the images the northern hemisphere was given more physical area on the map to be drawn, so his statement would be correct for those maps. And like what bill kong said, the maps shown also cuts off at a latitude closer to the equator in the southern hemisphere, meaning less of the south is projected.

The video’s last two points are too far-fetched to be honest. Like it’s evil european’s conspiracy to put less land in the Southern hemisphere.

Hips, also

if most people misinterpret, than the map is bad as doing its job, but in most cases, that is the point.

of course, too many citizens are too ignorant to maky any reasonable conclusion

@@xBINARYGODx Not going to apply here. The point is it is impossible to show everything simultaneously with accuracy. This is because the Earth is huge, not flat, nor perfectly shaped. Literally, to show one thing on a map, you have to either neglect showing other feature, or distort some of the less important features to make space for the parts most important according the priority of the person needing a map. This is why there are so many different maps and ways to use them.

Geography rules

shake my geo map

stoneworks map is flat too lol

Look up Flat Earth map and have a good laugh! :D

torus earth >>> flat earth

Thank you very much your information.

But these directions are purely arbitrary. How do you decide WHICH part of the z axis is up and which is down?

@@javierlatorre480 Right hand rule, common in physics and mathematics

@@filipe2338 I guess that's fair

@@filipe2338 Defining positize Z based on the right hand rule depends on which way you define as positive on the X and Y axis. It's still completely arbitrary

@@musubk No, to align with the rotation of the planets/solar systems, you will have a decisive positive direction for the Z axis.

Imo comes off as needlessly incendiary and clickbaitey Especially the Mercador thing, which is often portrayed as some elaborate propaganda conspiracy, but it’s just like… no? It turns out having a map whose primary purpose is to keep directions consistent is useful, why is this a problem? lol

In the video he elaborates on how it's not actually about how maps are "lying to us" so much as people are misinterpreting maps. I think the title is just there to catch people's attention.

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@@UnkownRU-vidr286 but u don’t have anything

I think enough videos on that exist

indeed correct, what he might think of is a cone projection, but with the tip at the south pole... that would have the effect he described with enlarging the northern territories

I'm pretty stunned that this guy made a whole video on maps pointing out the obvious and then got this wrong. He makes similar mistakes in other vids as well, kind of shows a lack of research and care given in all honesty. It may just be me, but I feel alot of RLL videos are heavily 'inspired' as well by other channels content. This isn't a problem in itself but when nothing is added or glaring mistakes are included, sort of makes you feel the attention this guy gets isn't very deserved?

Correct. I'm glad someone else caught this. I knew that degree in geography would come in handy one day🤣

I think he was referring (too subtly) to the fact that most of the land on earth is in the northern hemisphere, and reaches further north than southern lands reach south, which gives the appearance of the northern lands "growing" more than those in the south.

@@matthowells6382I think you're correct lol I just watched a few days ago a video from a similar channel that covered the cell phone maps. I feel like they saw that and said "there's a video, lets expanded on it." That's okay though, I still find it interesting.

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RLL "They made northern countries look bigger because colonialism." Then explain the fact that Africa looks massive... He's also trying to blow our mind that cities have a lot of people, thanks, Captain Obvious.

@@AsukaLangleyS02 This kind of blatant wow-factor corner cutting is why I'm not subscribed.

Because cnn and other msm hates western everything

@@fredriks5090 it's a fucken video magazine what did you expect lmfao

North and south r terms we made up. U could easily swap the compass to read the opposite.

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North could still be the bottom of the map in that case. We would just be used to the compass pointing towards the bottom of the map

Well, I think it was once established that the needle point of a compass is Magnetic North, so in all actuality what we call the North Pole would be the South Pole.

North is a eurozentric construct cause thats were maps origin from.

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@@UnkownRU-vidr286 He has been making videos for YEARS now, you really think that people are going to care about you?

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@@Seho2024 it's a copy and paste

@@wilcowen6284 i know

Its more about knowledge, understanding and interpretation.

Damm thats deep

funnily enough, even scientifically, the poles are actually portrayed the wrong way around

The location of the magnetic north pole has drifted around 300 miles over the last century or so. It used to be mich further south.

Earth has two magnetic poles though, like any magnet. The northern part of a compass needle is drawn north and the southern part of a compass needle is drawn towards the south, there isn't much reason to say one of the magnetic poles are more important than the other.

@@massimocole9689 agreed

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and yet, people are still misinterpreting maps and misleading maps keep getting pumped out.

@@lennycrew3 Every map is misleading because it's impossible to make a "perfect" map of the world

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@@VY_Canis_Majoris not really misleading... every map has its purpose, but no map, as you say, can do all at once. Wrong use of something is not the thing being misleading...

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Same with Germany. Rivers flow from higher to lower lands, therefore up = the source of the river and down = the sea.

It's that because how the river flows

I believe north and south is dictated by magnetic fields when you use a compass. this concept should stop existing if you're outside the magnetic field; when you're in outer space.

@@nakapanda right but what must makes north the up direction and south the down direction in our frame of reference? It could totally be the opposite had we decided otherwise

@@zacharykay188 it couldn't be the opposite because their isn't an up or down

@@zacharykay188 Yes if we had decided to name North-South and South-North it would be the complete opposite, but why would we set our map upside down? If the compass directs straight ahead and the planet is staying upwards then that should be north, and if its pointing downwards that should be south.

I think the plane of the Milky Way is actually what's used for that, which is angled completely differently from the solar system (which does align with our north and south pole - more or less). Also note that the axial tilt of the Earth means that stars can be in different hemispheres depending on the time of the year anyway.

Except people have been using that to make false claims that more people voted for Trump when that's objectively not true

@@frosty6845 When did people make that claim?

@@frosty6845 On that I can't argue. It shows an important divide between rural America and major population centers, but people are gonna people.

So, like the Mercator Cold War thing, it’s political propaganda.

@@lewatoaofair2522Sorta? Propaganda typically comes from the government to its citizens. This is usually between citizens. I think it's less propaganda and more just, misleading.

Then watch the videos from Christopher R. Scotese.

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don't blindly trust fact checks and sources just because they come from a big website though. the media and governments also lie and mislead too

@@stevesmithy5644 If it is peer-reviewed by experts and backed by empirical data, then there is little room for doubt, regardless of the website's size or owner.

@@rmoises8- I'm sorry but that is not true. "Fact checking" is simply a social media buzz word that has nothing to do with facts , data or truth.

@@darkoz1692 Got evidence to back your claim?

@@rmoises8 Yes, obviously... if we didn't adopt that position we would never believe anything we couldn't experience first hand and see with our own eyes. Would be not only quite impractical but would also turn us a bit paranoid in the process.

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The counties' voting preferences don't matter in anything except a local election. State elections and the federal Congress are done by district, and the presidential election is largely done by the state as a whole. Portraying the county borders as if they actually mattered in the presidential election is either grossly negligent or deliberately untrue.

report IDK Man, just spams shit everywhere.

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lmao markiplier refrence

What good are those habits? Anyway.... no one of any real significance is actually asking to change the map to upside down to now, but some are pointing it it, which apparently triggers people bothered by "inclusive", so they whine in the comments to a video that never said to change anything or even complain about north-up or whatever you want to call it.

nah... you're missing the point. in space there is no up/down/north/south. Earth's axial tilt and orbital plane around the sun are all events happening in space. so what is to say it's not the other way around? directions are given so we "humans" can make sense out of positions.

@@mishaelkama4077 I don't think I am. I would assume no one is coming to this video with the idea that north/south/top/bottom are absolute truths. Those words were created from human perception. We're therefore allowed to define them by the parameters we see fit.

The crime is getting very bad on it again now, the graffiti is starting to make a return. Very fitting considering how far both the city and this state have fallen, we should be called the falling empire state

@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Demographics are destiny

Bruh what i click that it do put at 0:36

Most people who say "do your own research" don't know how to do research.

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who'd thought that giving an powerful bias oriented research tool to vastly uneducated masses would cause harm huh?

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Loving the Sora profile pic!

Honestly there’s a lot of good reasons to have north on top, and this is one of my favorite reasons why. Right hand rule ftw

An X and Y axis can distinguish directions such as up or down but it would be a matter of perspective, espeically on a sphere Someone oriented differently in “space” can have a different perspective or opnion of whats up and down

@@aceclover758 i was about to type something up about various coordinate systems but just remembered something even better to prove my point. All 2D shapes have a defined top. (Well normal vector/orientation) First we can agree that a spinning sphere (earth is close enough to a sphere) has 2 natural features being the axis of rotation and the equator. The axis defines the poles but doesn't allow us to distinguish between north and south. That honor falls to the equator. The equator is a circle, and the direction of any shape is defined as normal to the side where the shape is drawn counter clockwise. Normally in math you just let the top be the side closest to the z-axis at time t=0, however, the earth is naturally spinning so the equator can be seen as inherently spinning so if you look at it so that it spins counterclockwise that is the top of the equator. (Positive rotation in math is ccw) This means that the north pole is the top pole because if you look at earth along it the planet is spinning ccw, and likewise the south pole is the bottom because looking at earth from along it the planet moves clockwise. Also feel free to look at the Wikipedia page for spherical coordinates, of which out lattitude, longitude, elevation system of measurement is a form of (granted lat-long is not right hand rule orthogonal and it should be longitude, lattitude, elevation) The point it positive rotation in math is counter clockwise so an isolated body should be defined the same to have positive angular velocity and angular momentum. Coincidentally Venus spins opposite the rest of the planets so it is either upsidedown or spins backwards.

It makes sense for the northern hemisphere to be at the top of globes and maps considering we are forced to pick however the fact is that it is not the top

And the Islamic World during the Islamic Golden Age put the Northern Hemisphere on the south.

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It’s geologically impossible for California to turn into an island after an earthquake (at least in 2200). California is moving north, not west.

actually this video is fucking terrible and poorly researched lmao

Look at this geniuses in the replies

The effect is more pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere because there's more land/countries further north. Except for the Great Penguin Empire which will one day conquer us all.

you are right, but this is a channel with low iq subscriber who do not know concepts as population density... hell, i am pretty sure they do not even know how the election system works in the US (show them a map with congressional districts!)

The part about the voter map is context. I have my share of "red" friends who show the bi-color map and say "See our side is better" but negate the fact Los Angeles County, California a "blue" county has a population bigger than 40 states (10 million). Hell in 2020 more people voted "red" in blue California than "red" Texas.

+Brian St. Denis. The problem is that this map suggests that it is unfair that the people from few small countries deside over the people of a lot of large ones, that the cities dictate the politics. It totally misses the point, and I think that's its purpose, that every vote counts the same and that its the people and not the states who deside (despite in the USA they have a strange voting system thet I don't appreciate where the candidate with fewer points can win the election). We had the same issue in Austria: a map nearly totally blue (Norbert Hofer, FPÖ) with small green spots (Alexander Van der Bellen, Grüne) on it. But this small spots were the big cities and due to Alexander Van der Bellen had more votes he became president. Its based on the mere fact that the world population is enormously unequal distributed.

The electoral college is an example of equity. It gives minority populations a more even footing with majority populations.