The Web thing which lets you drag a country or economy over any other and see how Mercator stuffs up their relative sizes is brilliant for getting a sense why people want this.
Like a lot of "colour the empire pink" schooled people (yes right up to the 60s and 70s that map was used in uk schools) I somehow I gained an initial impression NZ and JP were tiny.
The Web thing which lets you drag a country or economy over any other and see how Mercator stuffs up their relative sizes is brilliant for getting a sense why people want this.
Like a lot of "colour the empire pink" schooled people (yes right up to the 60s and 70s that map was used in uk schools) I somehow I gained an initial impression NZ and JP were tiny.