Madagascator & Mexicator

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xkcd has published another fun, map based cartoon. Bad Map Projection No. 248: Madagascator is a world map which uses the Mercator projection "but with the North Pole in the Indian Ocean so that it exaggerates the size of Madagascar instead of Greenland.' The map is a great way to visualize how the Mercator projection distorts size the more you move away from the equator. Because Mercator is so

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