Why every world map is wrong - Kayla Wolf

[@manishsapkal2641]

"An interrupted psuedo-cylindrical equal area projection.......What does that mean ? Not important" That was a relief for me 😅

[@mgA757]

Yea😂👍

[@badmintongo4832]

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY

[@tteottaninguiayami]

That... Whatever it is, will now surely be the answer in the next TedEd Video

[@Mohammad.ul.hassan]

Fr

[@joeg2jerry20]

Big sphere not fit on small rectangle. Simple.

[@wxylmnopqrstuwxy7511]

lol🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣🤣

[@prakash_77]

That's what Hulk would say 👀

[@marxiewasalittlegirl]

Why did I watch 5 mins video then, this comment is enough

[@ooghaboogha4362]

@Kyle a ball

[@avdhootgole2773]

Thats it

[@oliverpepit1354]

I wish my teachers would ask: "What does that mean? Not important."

[@speeedslayer]

Man ! Now that's an underrated comment .

[@edeworabraham2761]

That will save alot of time

[@proloycodes]

42 mins ago!

[@ivnmbgy]

This is my new mantra.

[@yedukrishnansl7540]

I wish my parents say that about my marks😇

[@RainierKine]

I set my home as the centre of a map projection generator. Everything is relative to me, problem solved!

[@Nerdyone1000]

Japan’s way ahead of ya buddy

[@amalirfan]

Serious Choy

[@ilovecairns5181]

No?

[@RainierKine]

@@ilovecairns5181 *gasp* Hopefully, you live on the edge of my map

[@JjMn1000]

Yay

[@skarlet_toki9242]

I always wondered why Greenland looked so different in every other map.

[@checcmac8693]

I wondered why Greenland is iced?

[@ParthPatel-hl2hj]

In the map, greenland looks as big as africa lol

[@spleens4200]

@@checcmac8693 because vikings

[@Music-if1nv]

I was also wondering why Greenland wasnt a continent by the size it is in the map, it looks bigger than Australia!

[@kingsingh2616]

@@ParthPatel-hl2hj here in India, it looks smaller than Australia lol

[@rajatbalraj7954]

This was a very different style of narration than what Ted-Ed normally does, much more casual one might say and it was rather fresh! The animation and content was awesome as always!❤️❤️

[@overcookedwater1947]

"...because the earth is ROUND..." *multiple flat earthers are typing*

[@vincentwiddershoven2122]

Ofcourse the world is round! Just like a pancake! 😁😁😁

[@CalvinK300]

Don’t forget the beveled edge!

[@muhammadridho7680]

But the NASA evidence is just a cgi *Flat eaters intensifies*

[@NKY5223]

@@muhammadridho7680 *Eats flats*

[@jagpreetsingh6711]

(if you know the ttg reference:) It is not flat,It Is a pancake.

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

In fact, a map can only be accurate in one of four domains: shape, area, distance, or direction👍

[@kartikadewi3270]

Just like the 4 horsemen

[@a.kcodes1761]

yep i agree

[@star_duck]

The four Nations lived in harmony

[@truthseeker7815]

@UCUv657QlyBhAADuHSOufekA, only the Avatar, master of all elements, could stop them

[@Gamesaucer]

@@truthseeker7815 You mean the globe, master of all four domains?

[@caitlinpolius7404]

the person who is voicing this is really good at expressing and stressing words and information. Greatly appreciated how you kept me watching !!

[@pabloyotrosbichos]

Ted ed is just destroying my reality and reconstructing it

[@opienti]

congrats on the heart

[@anatine_banana_69]

Congratulations dude

[@kingofblox2976]

Is that something worse congratulating? lol

[@vishalbhowmick2706]

Huh reality...

[@vale3242]

Just like me with everything except sometimes I can't reconstruct it

[@ishanjain922]

Props to you guys for educating the general public about miscellaneous topics in a wide array of subjects for free. This video was really informative 👏

[@sciwizShreyasKulkarni]

True , but vsauce had covered this exact topic 10 years ago

[@mgA757]

@@sciwizShreyasKulkarni Thanks for sharing some good channel I didn't know before. I won't have understood anything 10 years back... i was a little kid then. 🤗

[@TeamCloud.]

I already knew this, but it’s just an interesting topic, and I like animations lol.

[@sciwizShreyasKulkarni]

@@mgA757 you're welcome 😁

[@siwong3368]

At 2:04 he has deal with it glasses 🎉

[@jinhyolee8442]

I thought this was gonna be about political disagreements on land.

[@shivannapv4262]

Same lol

[@kartikadewi3270]

Whoa ? Lands still have politics....?? Godammnit

[@noyasssh7621]

Johnny harris fans

[@Krystoff04111]

Nope. Just another lecture on whiteness. 😒

[@17RedKnight]

@@Krystoff04111 so we're just going to pretend that race didn't have any role in human history? Cause it shouldnt come to a surprise that much of it was influenced by race

[@willo90li]

" an interrupted pseudo-cylindrical equal area projection " Me: Wow that's a fancy phrase, what is it? "not important" Me: (ಠ_ಠ) Jokes aside the narrator of this video deserves a raise!

[@alphabladelm2011]

That she does.

[@pkmkb]

idk but it might be the thing where they put a source of light inside a globe and put a cylinder outside the globe such that when light is turned on, the globe projects its content on the curved surface of the cylinder and when that curved surface is opened up to make a rectangal, you have your map. i dont know if i am right but the term cylinder and projection made me think so.

[@mgA757]

@@pkmkb I liked your thought. I never thought that.

[@caminstol2473]

the script-writer is the real one that needs a raise

[@KennyBky92]

Yeah, an 18 cent raise...

[@imiss1D]

Reason : Earth is 3-D Map is 2-D Save time

[@kartikadewi3270]

3 Dimensional googles like 3D blockbuster Movie theaters

[@whitenoise3447]

I already know this but I still wanna watch the video cuz I think about this all the time XD

[@rj5848]

The cube is 3d but you can make it 2d but making a sphere 2d is kind of impossible as you know pi is a irrational number which causes problem in making a sphere to a 2d figure cause the calculation won’t be accurate but we will get close to perfect but never perfect

[@dofelf3845]

aren't the pen lines and circles used for maps 1D??

[@567secret]

Well you got it wrong, it's not to do with the dimensions, but because you're trying to fit a curved plane to a flat plane, you'd see the same thing with a negatively curved plane (a hyperbolic plane), and that doesn't even link back to itself.

[@elenas3571]

The first thing I do when I see a map of the world is check to make sure New Zealand is included.

[@philiphudson6679]

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[@elvye2swehe]

Same for Trinidad and Tobago hahahaha

[@bingbonghafu]

I love Kayla’s humorous writing style!

[@paintwithtihani9926]

I’m intrigued how did Ptolemy came up with the grid and longitude latitude idea back then that’s soooo awesome considering they didn’t have satellite back then

[@leafwhy]

Sometimes I wonder, how people were able to draw maps in the ancient times without seeing the world from above?

[@174b9]

They draw coastlines.

[@Dark-ki7lf]

Brain... You know that distance btw sun and earth was known in ancient books in Greece and Indian civilizations? Its just crazy how good imagination, calculation those people used to have

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

They didn't draw maps they way we draw them, instead they'd draw a place, the vague direction you had to go to get to the next place and write the distance in-between the two. It's like when you explain someone how to get somewhere (go 5 minutes in that direction and turn right at the crossing). In that example you also don't use a bird's eye view, you just give directions and rough time estimates

[@bthorner33]

Guessing

[@fireflamefine625]

I don't know who looks at the size of things and imagines that the larger ones are more important than the smaller ones.

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

That's what he said

[@girlsquad224]

That's crazy! Lol Never thought of that honestly. 'Cause growing up, it was actually told to us in school that maps aren't an accurate representation of the planet and primarily used for navigatory purposes.

[@pangolimazul6055]

Say that to people who complain about the size of their... higth. In all honestly,it does play a role, size is considered, globaly, as a symbol of superiority, be it having a bigher hight, having a bigger empire or nowadays a bigger economy. Even just having a map focused on europe already sends a message. As someone from a third world nation( Brazil) I can say that it does change the perspective of most, mostly uneducated, people. That said, in this particular case, I'm not sure if a lot can be done,taking into consideration the map does need to have a center somewhere. That said, I don't think mercator is the best map for learning purposes as, for understanding the world, you don't need to have a map that has straight lines as the shorter route, but you can benefit from knowing what nations are bigger, even more so when we talk history and geopolitics

[@rohanshah6882]

@@casparvoncampenhausen5249 😂😂😂

[@palody_en-ja]

Land mass equals resources, which means power. This fueled the race for colonialism, and the Mercator Map unwittingly reinforced the perceived image of dominance.

[@RedShoesSmith]

This is why everyone should walk around with a pocket globe, map issues solved.

[@artiir4200]

Huh

[@craftah]

but if you walk straight on the globe it looks like you are not walking straight and that looks weird

[@Luffy_wastaken]

2:44 One of the funniest narrator so far😂😂

[@waffle6454]

1. Get an inflatable globe 2. Cut a vertical line from one pole to the other 3. Flatten it out Now you have the most accurate map!

[@prism2451]

3:21 Well that's one way to go to Nigeria 😂

[@suprabrajbhandari548]

There are so many videos about this and I still watch it

[@OsamasStory]

1:29 When she said “because the earth is round” my mind instantly went to the flat earthers

[@Bejunckt]

0:50 "150 *A.D.* " like wow what miracle just happened with ted-ed

[@louckykoneko]

I never noticed just how distorted maps are until I tried putting together a 3d globe puzzle. I was amazed at how tiny the USA really is, especially when compared to South America.

[@g-vision1282]

Um...hello, you're right! Btw, South America is a continent. The USA is a country that's a PART of a continent called North America. Just an fyi.

[@476429]

First, they should have covered the Robinson projection. It's a good compromise and gets the landmasses closer to their real sizes. National Geographic uses the Robinson projection. Second, creating a new projection because you believe some people feel superior based on the Mercator is just nuts. Create accurate projections because they get you closer to the truth, not because of what you think some people may think about current projections.

[@kohterg3713]

My thoughts exactly... the historical revisionsm they are pulling up is messing with science and that's a huge problem for all mankind.

[@OsamasStory]

In school they should teach kids the difference between the real map and the fake map & why we use the fake one I had to learn that by my self

[@groundsymphony]

I love this casual way of explaining, not too rigid and formal that diminishes the fun and excitement

[@danko238]

Map men, map men, map, map, map, men, men

[@kaysanmeme7693]

map men map men map map map men men

[@killanotterinasecond]

Men

[@DrRank]

Back in my day, maps had a river, a lake, and a tall mountain, and that's all we needed.

[@shantanu9393]

World map exists.. Ted-Ed: I'mma about to end this man's whole career

[@random20000]

Why cant it be a women? 😠

[@fanteasy7399]

@@random20000 why not

[@tunespace]

"What does that mean?" Me: aargh,great now I have to google the term again. "Not important." Me: Oh,that was...unexpected.

[@jonathantoothbreaker8786]

i’m literally a cartographer why am i watching this?

[@Weretyu7777]

Because you like maps and videos about them, perhaps?

[@shebarashid3696]

With all respect to all voices of Ted ed but this voice is the best it catches our ears with different modulations of voice at the same time keeping it to the point

[@vng]

@TED-Ed The video may cause a slight misunderstanding with regard to great circle navigation. It sounds like the curved line on a flat map for great circle navigation mentioned around 1:40 becomes a straight line under Mercator projection (mentioned around 2:12) but on a Mercator projection, a great circle is still a curved line. Mercator projection just allows people to get from point A to point B by following a single compass bearing, but the result is a longer route than the great circle one.

[@paleoph6168]

Imagine this problem but with mapping the prehistoric past, especially Pangea.

[@thequestions7013]

Flat earthers with their reverse logic be like: It is impossible to make accurate map on flat surface but it can be made accurately through a globe. So, earth is flat.

[@antoniousai1989]

It's like what happened with Heliocentrism and Geocentrism. People used to explain the stars and planets movements with extremely complex mathematics but then Tycho Brahe, Copernico and Galileo argued (and proved with data) that the math was much simpler by putting the Sun in the center: because the Sun is in the center (technically it isn't, both centers of the orbits are inside the Sun, but whatever).

[@thequestions7013]

@@antoniousai1989 What you are trying to say actually...

[@Archius_09]

Ted-ed has got the best animators in it's studios

[@neil9835]

True

[@shivannapv4262]

Wait....your profile picture.......I remember seeing it somewhere but I cannot exactly remember what it is

[@Archius_09]

@@shivannapv4262 can you name the channel where you viewed my comment is it shulkercraft?

[@neil9835]

@@shivannapv4262 who me?

[@shivannapv4262]

Well, you guys either you guys changed your profile images or I have terrible memory but Idk who or what the profile image I was referring to lol

[@dhruvbhatt3764]

This problem can also be used to demonstrate the curvature of the Earth to people who claim the Earth is flat...

[@xavierthomas5923]

hi there. Am a fellow curve earther

[@Neet-gl5ch]

me too

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[@vikasv7678]

The narrator must be enjoying when she says the word "WRONG"! I could hear so much pleasure when she says that.

[@prakashkulkarni1373]

only Ted Ed map is correct all others are flawed!!

[@ganeshprasad4929]

FACTS!🥂

[@justlimonika]

I have an idea.... Let's flatten the Earth so we could create an accurate map of it.

[@dakshanbalaramesh]

Like a pancake? That's already on the UN Flag 😂

[@nHans]

Good idea, but you're a few thousand years late. Euclid and other ancient Greek mathematicians have already implemented it. It's called Euclidean Geometry-"Geometry" literally means "earth measurements"-and it assumes that the Earth's surface is flat. We've been using it for thousands of years now. We teach it to all our kids, then complain when some of them grow up believing that the Earth is flat.

[@ZachWalz]

I think the Map Men said it best: a map in a classroom is not meant to teach kids navigation, it’s meant to give an understanding of the world around them.

[@shaunm6383]

I see I've found another Map Men fan. Good on you for watching quality KZbin content.

[@marije179]

I didn't not that the Mercator projection eliminated the turning-thing-traight-line problem! Wow! Learned something new today!

[@nahruz.w3044]

Wait i thought this was "Map Men" video but it was actually ted-ed. A welcome surprise nonetheless

[@pkmkb]

animation? amazing narrator? brilliant content? quality HOTEL? TRIVAGO

[@monasaad7611]

I actually love this and I read it before in an encyclopedia and it's fun to remember it every once in a while , love your animations !

[@gettingshotsomeonesgonnapa8635]

@Gael salty much?

[@Lordeevee]

So that explains how I miraculously wound up here instead of the virtual lab website.

[@thijsvanderlem343]

This is really helpful love to you guys!

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

I agree

[@projectoek9453]

"because the earth is round..." Them are some fighting words right there

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[@sketchyskies8531]

The people who spent time making it: Am I a joke to you?

[@whoisharo4689]

Everyone is complimenting the narration. I agree with them! Stressing certain words, her reading style and attitude is perfect. Great for kids to learn too. Good job.

[@PabloCarbonari]

I just LOVE this series of animated videos! Many people (companies) were doing it before, but TED just nailed it. Congrats and keep up the good work!

[@demonic77_77]

I like the way she narrates

[@muhammeduzair9871]

I love the way she narrates it, she makes it fun.

[@daniellstephen]

Those blokes at Map Men made a video on this!

[@marmar17]

I’ve always been interested in maps so I immediately clicked on this video when I saw it.

[@GorggW]

This broke me, I downloaded Google Earth and compare it to Google maps, wow

[@GorggW]

@@philiphudson6679 go away bot

[@lucth16]

@3:56 Gotta love how to don't include China, Japan, the middle east and Northern Africa(and more). I understand the logic but it's so flawed it's laughable.

[@arcanine_enjoyer]

Exactly. It makes zero sense to be mad over "places closer to the equator will be stretched to compensate for the spherical nature of our world"

[@leonguyen896]

0:40 I love the not-so-subtle shade there

[@eethannnn]

TLDR: Maps are 2d, and the world is 3d, so, in order to make the world into a flat space, you need to distort it in some way.

[@TheGamingG810]

good idea: you need a globe and thin sheets of paper. Wrap the papers around the globe. Then, draw the continents and oceans on the pieces of paper. Then, connect the pieces of paper so that the continents align. Digital mapping can make this projection look good. This is probably the most accurate projection ever.

[@RohitKulan]

What if the paper gets wet or a mountain tears a hole in it?

[@simranmalhotra7364]

This was a very different style of narration than what Ted-Ed normally does, much more casual one might say and it was rather fresh!! The person voicing this is really good at expressing and stressing words and information. The animation and content was awesome as always!❤️❤️

[@xavierwiatrowski17]

Map men already taught me that all maps of the world are wrong

[@akshaychauhan4346]

Ted-Ed finally made a humorous video nice start.

[@beingrkm]

I like this narrator! She feels... so energetic :>

[@nicholasheimann4629]

So with map projections instead of "get woke go broke" it's "get woke get lost".

[@thequestions7013]

*The narrator is chilling while narrating*

[@oliviacaddell]

I love this narrorator, and I think this vid was amazing. It was cool how it was explained.

[@Presence10]

Alright; this whole "Shifts our point of View"... no. I was in 3rd or 4th grade. Early years I don't remember exactly. and I came to the conclusion while looking at a distorted map and realized that "The boxes are the same size" and therefore Greenland was quite small. Now I didn't realize this fully until later but if you're complaining about flat maps in education. Just use a globe. Not that people don't already do that, nor that globes are expensive, or that this distortion hasn't been publicized on youtube more than a dozen times.

[@adityaprakash9548]

Love from wrong map believer♥️

[@getpriyanka]

I have always imagined why the map is the way it is, and not up side down, because even if it was made that way, it would make no difference.

[@labyrinth7129]

Very slick animations!

[@ElliotWright]

Thank you for transcribing and expanding upon the video that MapMen did on this :P

[@dasboot109]

Flat-earthers reading only the title:“I KNEW IT!“ Watching the actual video:“…not important“

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Every World Map: No, you're wrong!

[@bscorvin]

I know ya’ll probably won’t be making another video on geography / cartography so soon, but it might be cool to discuss in the future the fact that getting exact measurements of shorelines is impossible.

[@shaksiyat]

Climax of this video have completely shifted my point of view

[@joszsz]

That soft tone at 3:39 "could this be... the perfect map? Well, no" - I love it!😂

[@yess.6558]

The playfull tone of her voice makes this video very fun. I think in general the monotone and straightforwardness is needed in TED-Ed. But this king of change is quite nice every once in a while and kinda makes it more engaging.

[@doomddudc6440]

Ted ed:Maps are not everytime accurate. People : Yeah that's why we have GPS.... 😎😂😂..... Just kidding Nice information TED-ED.

[@TaiFerret]

I especially like the interrupted projections such as the Goode Homolocine and the Dymaxion. I also really like the Peirce quincuncial, which is a square shape and tileable. I once edited it such that Antarctica isn't cut to pieces.

[@an3_omx]

I like the Goode Homolocine quite a bit as well!

[@jassimkoya]

I like the new narrator's voice! 🙂 Oh and brilliant content as always.

[@AwesomeBoysJPTV]

Ted-ed: Why World Maps are Wrong? Vox: Wait, that's Illegal!

[@43Cubes]

Denmark: Greenland is big, let's go for the Scramble for Greenland Literally the rest of Europe: Scramble for Africa Denmark: *checks the relative sizes of the two irl, not just on a map* Also Denmark: *visible confusion*

[@luuchoo93]

Great video. Many people know that Mercator is not accurate but they believe that the alternate version that enlarges countries closer to the Equator is the accurate one. As it was clearly said, no map is accurate, only the globe.

[@rohanfernando21]

The energy in this video is electric.

[@Leto85]

I remember the old video game The Game of Intelligent Life from 1999. In there the ever changing world map was viewed as a pealed orange with blue for water, yellow for land and gray for the areas that didn't exist but were needed to review a sphere on a flat surface. When an animal moved on the Earth and had to 'cross' one of those gray areas, the animal simply disappeared only to instantly reappear on the adjecent plot of land. It was as simple as it could be. And in my opinion, real life maps could be cut out that way.

[@piyushsinghbhandari9035]

I liked the expression of the voice in the video and the content and the animation too.

[@beartheburn3863]

Yup

[@ahmedshahhussain804]

I liked how the narration was fast nd clever. Its something u don't see tedED do. Its good to see a change

[@bhushanjadhav6578]

Earth is round. FLAT EARTH SOCIETY left the chat••✓

[@noworries1769]

Oh my gosh. Many flat earthers will be devastated.

[@Shazistic]

Fun fact You are first until you refresh 🤣🤣

[@kartikadewi3270]

Fact: I AM FIRST

[@zherean42069]

@@kartikadewi3270 *FACT:IM FIRST*

[@kartikadewi3270]

@@zherean42069 are you sure ?? Because You need to press the word " Moowest First"

[@zherean42069]

@@kartikadewi3270 wait...so im not first...

[@kartikadewi3270]

@@zherean42069 sadly, yeah

[@yecto1332]

If earth was flat map could have been so simple, isn’t it

[@tomasgomes8793]

3:50 woke af

[@captainpalegg2860]

I love this video because it didn’t single out the Mercator projection. Rather, the Mercator was used as one of several examples for why all flat maps are useful in some aspects and horrible in others.

[@ValkyRiver]

I simply use the sec² trick with the Mercator projection.

[@CuriousTrotter]

I absolutely loved this video! The animation was amazing, and more of this narrator please!

[@daddyleon]

This is why we need globes...there are many more reasons, like making it more tactile and intuitive, not to mention easier to see the connections between places. Even better if you could stick long spikes through it, so you can see what's at the other side of the world. Many and more reasons, but this video explains one of them.