{"id":33682,"date":"2015-11-24T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33682"},"modified":"2015-11-23T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T02:40:26","slug":"the-mercator-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/24\/the-mercator-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercator Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How badly distorted is your mental map of the world thanks to the use of the Mercator projection? You can test yourself right here in your web browser with The Mercator Puzzle. Click on the image below, then drag each distorted country outline to its correct location on the underlying map:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_33683\" style=\"width: 863px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gmaps-samples.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/poly\/puzzledrag.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33683\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mercator-Puzzle-853x563.png\" alt=\"Click the image to play in your browser\" width=\"853\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mercator-Puzzle-853x563.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mercator-Puzzle-150x99.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mercator-Puzzle-480x317.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mercator-Puzzle.png 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to play in your browser<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/09\/29\/mercator-puzzle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Hudson<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How badly distorted is your mental map of the world thanks to the use of the Mercator projection? You can test yourself right here in your web browser with The Mercator Puzzle. Click on the image below, then drag each distorted country outline to its correct location on the underlying map: H\/T to Laura Hudson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[624],"class_list":["post-33682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33685,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions\/33685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}