A friend of mine from Indonesia told me a few weeks ago that flying from one end of his country to the other was longer than flying from London to Uzbekistan, or flying transatlantic from London to Boston. I thought this couldn't possibly be true, but when I looked it up, it was.
The Mercator projection really messes with one's sense of relative distances, and so inspired by other visualization sites like thetruesize.com which account for this, I thought I'd build this small web app to help myself and others build better intuitions about flight distances.
The Mercator projection really messes with one's sense of relative distances, and so inspired by other visualization sites like thetruesize.com which account for this, I thought I'd build this small web app to help myself and others build better intuitions about flight distances.