This is Sky. "skywoof.com" is named for her. (^_^)The world is round. Maps are flat.
Do you know how SMALL Greenland is? I grew up thinking it was much bigger than it is, because of how it appear on maps.
Do you know how BIG Africa is?
On the right is a poor copy of something you can read properly, with good supporting text, too, at The USA, China, India and MANY more are shown, superimposed on Africa.
What about other landmasses?
The crude graphics below will, I hope, start you on a journey of discovery. And perhaps of creativity.
I have long dreamt of... but not started... a computer program to display images similar to those below... with three of the landmasses shown at one scale, and one shown at a slightly bigger or smaller scale.
The program would ask the user to identify the one draw at a different scale.
Just a "game"... but one that might improve the users knowledge?
I'm pressed for time as I push this out. There are other things you could do in a similar vein. Use your imagination! Tell me what you come up with? (Contact details in footer.)
Individual jpegs of all of the views below are here for you, with a few more. Click this to fetch a .zip archive containing them. (2.4MB)
Search across all my sites with the Google search button at the top of the page which will open in a new tab if you click this link. Or...
Search SheepdogGuides.com site, including Flat-Earth-Academy...
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What's New at the Site / / Advanced search
This search tool (free to me and to you) is provided by FreeFind.com... whom I've used since 2000. I'm happy with them... obviously!
Unlike the clever Google search engine, FreeFind's merely looks for the words you type, so....
* Spell them properly.
* Don't bother with "How do I get rich?" That will merely return pages with "how", "do", "I"....
Disclosure: FreeFind tells me what people have searched for. It doesn't tell me your personal details. (If someone would "spy" on you, wouldn't they also feel free to lie in a "privacy statement"? Not to say I'm not lying... how can you tell?... but to say "What are privacy statements worth?".
The search engine merely looks for the words you type, so....
*! Spell them properly !*
Don't bother with "How do I get rich?" That will merely return pages with "how", "do", "I", "get" and "rich".
Please also note that I also have other sites, and that the FreeFind search will not include results from them. They each have their own site-specific search buttons.
My "wywtk.com" site...WhatYouWantToKnow
My "skywoof.com" site...
This is Sky. "skywoof.com" is named for her. (^_^)
And there are links from those pages to pages at my SheepdogGuides.com, Arduserver.com and Flat-Earth-Academy.com sites, which are also controlled by me.
https://www.arunet.co.uk/tkboyd/ My oldest-still-running site*. Have a laugh at some dated material! It may be dated in styling, but not all of the content is obsolete. Much of what was there is also available at https://skywoof.com/aru/index2.htm (*My Compuserve site is, alas, history.)
To email this page's editor, Tom Boyd.... Editor's email address. Suggestions welcomed! Please cite the page's URL, "fea/geo/how-big-main.htm".
Page has been tested for compliance with INDUSTRY (not MS-only) standards, using the free, publicly accessible validator at validator.w3.org. It passes in some important ways, but still needs work to fully meet HTML 5 expectations. (Copy your page's URL to your clipboard before clicking on the icon, so you can easily paste it into the validator when it has loaded.)-->
AND it has been tested with...
Why is there a script or hidden graphic on this page? I have my web-traffic monitored for me by eXTReMe tracker. They offer a free tracker. If you want to try one, check out their site. Neither my webpages nor my programs incorporate spyware, but if the page has Google tools, they also involve scripts. Why do I mention the scripts? Be sure you know all you need to about spyware.
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