• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    I think we actually have to get out a ruler here. In the world of infographics, “not to scale” usually just means one dimension is at a different ratio from the other(s).

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        6 days ago

        Then go yell at OP about posting a non-map.

        There’s no lie here, nobody thought lakes are actually finger-shaped in cross-section.

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          Strawman arguments aside, it seems you’ve already forgotten how this comment chain started. Just let it go.

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            You’re the one being randomly aggressive in an otherwise-friendly conversation.

            I had forgotten the cross-sections were already mentioned, that’s true. I mentally boiled down what you wrote to “not to scale means inconsistent scale”. My point was that if there isn’t any inconsistency in vertical scale - which is what I suspect - there’s no “lie”.