The Far Side of Texas

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 08/25/2020 at 10:46 • Filed to: None

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 10:51

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Does Texas even have  a near side? Would that be Austin?

Brian, The Life of > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2020 at 10:55

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Wouldn’t Austin be Texas’ far side?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 10:57

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Thank god it’s friday.

Oh.  wait a second

OPPOsaurus WRX > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 11:05

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yea its not Friday. GTFO, no jumping ahead

user314 > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 11:19

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‘ Eddie’ really should have been ‘Dar ryl’.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2020 at 11:21

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Seeing as it’s about 850 on I-10 from one side to the other, I guess that whatever side you come in the state on would be the near side, and the other would be the far side.

user314 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 08/25/2020 at 11:26

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It’s Five O’clock Friday somewhere.

Svend > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 11:42

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If it was a load of Texans in a race, wouldn’t they all just shoot the guy who fired the starting pistol?

Just kidding. 

ttyymmnn > Svend 08/25/2020 at 11:46

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Kidding not kidding. 

Cé hé sin > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 12:11

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I thought Texas was bigger than that - it’s only a bit bigger than France.

Edit: let’s compare it to bits of Canada:

EL_ULY > Cé hé sin 08/25/2020 at 12:34

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thetruesize.com

RIP the next 8 hours of your productive day lol

ttyymmnn > Cé hé sin 08/25/2020 at 12:36

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Yes, but please try that again with a projection other than Mercator. Here’s how TX stacks up to Alaska on a Mercator map (left), while the other shows the comparison with TX properly stretched for higher latitudes.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 12:40

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Gotta love Mercator projection. Proportions near the poles — so hilarous!

Cé hé sin > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 12:40

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Not my map though - I know little to nothing about North American geography!

Merkin Muffley > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 13:08

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Nothing like crossing at Texarkana and seeing that crazy big number on the MP marker

Merkin Muffley > Cé hé sin 08/25/2020 at 13:08

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Nope

Merkin Muffley > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 13:09

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Thanks!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Brian, The Life of 08/25/2020 at 13:18

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I guess it depends upon your orientation.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 13:19

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I’ve driven across the Panhandle...

ttyymmnn > Cé hé sin 08/25/2020 at 13:48

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It’s not so much the geography, it’s how the Mercator projection distorts the true size of the northern and southern land masses. As the lines of meridian come to a point at the poles, Mercator spreads them apart so they remain parallel. That’s great for mariners who want to be able to plot a course, because they can do so by using a straight line. However, it does a lousy job of showing the true relative sizes of the land masses.

This is considered by some to be the best flat representation of the Earth which still retains the relative land mass sizes.

You can read about other projections in this excellent article:

https://www.geoawesomeness.com/best-map-projection/

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2020 at 13:49

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I’m sorry.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 08/25/2020 at 13:56

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I prefer the Winkel-Tripel projection because it’s on the map I stole from school.

I was purely trolling about politics, vis-a-vis near and far sides.

WRXforScience > Cé hé sin 08/25/2020 at 14:34

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Your map is a projection that skews sizes the farther north you go. Texas should cover up nearly all of Hudson Bay.