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  1. Not started, How big does Web Mercator make Greenland?CartographyAnswers

    Put a number on the most famous distortion in cartography: the same countries measured on the ellipsoid and on the projection every web map uses.

    CartographyintermediateDifficulty: intermediate210 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Countries · MultiPolygon · 241 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Measure area geodesically or in an equal-area projection
    • Project the same polygons to Web Mercator and take their planar area
    • Express the distortion as ratios a reader can repeat
    Web Mercatorprojectionarea distortionEqual EarthglobalAlso trains Spatial Analysis
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  2. Not started, The buffer that shrank on the way to the mapCartographyAnswers

    Quantify what a 400 m buffer drawn in EPSG:3857 actually covers on the ground in London, and how much of the coverage report it loses.

    CartographyintermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Datasets

    • Santander Cycles docking stations (live snapshot) · Point · 799 features · EPSG:4326
    • London boroughs · Polygon · 33 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Derive the Web Mercator scale factor at London's latitude
    • Translate a projected buffer distance into its ground equivalent
    • Re-run the coverage analysis with the shrunken buffer and measure the shortfall
    Web Mercatorscale factorprojectionbufferLondonAlso trains Spatial Analysis
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