Talk:The World (archipelago)

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For the archived deletion debate for this article see Talk:The World Islands/delete -- Graham ☺ | Talk 21:18, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

According to this article, the largest islands (83 613m²) are bigger than the total development (6 kilometres by 9 kilometres = 54 000m².)

6000m*9000m = 54,000,000m². Thue | talk 15:45, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Projection 2 Tiny World 3 Island layout 4 Measurements 5 A World without Israel

[edit] Projection

Which projection is going to be used, or are the continent shapes just going to be vaguely inspired by the real continents? Are the relative sizes going to be accurate at all?

RandomP 02:17, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

It also seems true that Singh used the islands for a PR stunt relating to his golf course in Dubai, and has also not bought an island.

The story on Michael Schumacher being given an island is not true either. I think rumors attached to celebrities happen when you have glamorous developments like these.

[edit] Tiny World

Is it true, that if you go over to Dubai, on The World, there's going to be a tiny to scale version of The World? --Richy 14:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

... and on the tiny scale version, there's a tinier scale version, ad infinitum? Petershank 00:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Island layout

It looks like the layout has changed recently, particularly Australia - see [1]. Does anyone know when this happened? -- Chuq 07:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Measurements

Why are the metric measurements given as much more precise than the Merkin ones? Are the metric measurements accurate? If so, then the Merkin measurements should be corrected to the same level of precision. If not, then the metric measurements should be changed to less precise. This almost look like someone once again converted Merkin measurements to metric by rote learned in elementary school, not understanding precision, but the metric measurements are given first so they look like the official ones, and the UAE is, like the entire world outside the USA, a fully metric country. JIP | Talk 07:36, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Then isn't the logical conclusion that the metric measurements are the accurate ones and the imprecise Merkin ones just rough approximations? And even if the Merkin ones are accurate, there's no basis for making the metric ones less accurate. Bastun 15:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

The difference between the given Merkin measurements, and those converted from the given metric ones, is only about a thousandth of a percent. It seems very unlikely that the UAE, being a fully metric country, purposefully designed the islands' measurements to snugly fit into round figures in Merkin. It is much more likely that they are either round figures in metric, or unround figures in both systems, but someone only saw the Merkin measurements, rounded them off, and then converted them back to metric with ridiculously over-specific precision. JIP | Talk 19:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A World without Israel

Israel is not included on the map, this is an important aspect of creating a map supposed to include the whole world, and then politicaly alter it, according to UAE's political order. Why has Chuck deleted my comments regarding the political World map without commenting why?, this is pure vandalism.