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Map exaggeration

Exaggerating with maps.

Perhaps most exaggerated of all though has to be the images that are typically given to show the accumulation of “space junk” โ€” remnants of space flights and defunct satellites, etc. In this image each pixel represents approximately 114 miles; so a piece of debris the size of a car is marked with a point the size of Long Island โ€” easily a 6 order of magnitude exaggeration.

(via mike)