Few people realise the scale of the Himalayas because static maps are a bad way to convey topography. Fortunately, we can use interactive maps to explore topography. Here is an example using Pyvista.

Code can be found here - github.com/symmy596/Pytho…

@PythonMaps What's that, like 100X exaggeration? I don't think that helps people. Sri Lanka off Indian subcontinent is what 100x250 miles? And Everest is 5.5 miles, but twice as tall on this map as Sri Lanka is long.

@PythonMaps Few people realize the scale Here’s a map that’s not to scale

@PythonMaps Is this height real scale?

@PythonMaps x.com/ThisIsMeIn360V…

@PythonMaps Crazy that lil basin there surrounded by tall mountains

@PythonMaps Static maps make the Himalayas look like hills.

@PythonMaps The scale is wrong by many miles Comparing the height of Himalaya with India in this map, that’s about 250 km So the scale is off by more than 240 km

@PythonMaps The scale is way off. Isn't it?

@PythonMaps Explore topography from this map? Yes. Realize scale of Himalayas from this map? Heck no!

You are wayy wrong brother. Everest the highest peak is not even 9 kms. India from North to South is 3124 kms. Which means the ratio of about 1:363 and your code shows 1:6 at best. ``` gdal.ContourGenerate(mem_raster.GetRasterBand(1), 50, -11, [], 0, 0, contour_lyr, 0, 1) ``` Your 50m contours here could be appropriate for local 42km study, not 8,000km.

@PythonMaps You have a bug in your code. Also, you’re retarded.

@PythonMaps Tibet

@PythonMaps But this is not scale of Himalayas, people won't realise from this either. Mount Everest is like 8 km, and a distance, for example, from Ganges Delta to Bhutan is like 500 km. Cool work, but a misleading caption.

@PythonMaps Clearly, the world is trying its best to keep Indians in India.

@PythonMaps Tibet 🥶 Tibet's average elevation is about 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level, earning it the nickname "the roof of the world".

@PythonMaps There is one Bharat Mata Mandir in Varanasi with a huge & beautiful marble topographical map of Bharat made almost 100 years ago.

@PythonMaps You sure there is nothing wrong with the code?

@PythonMaps This is wrong... Elevation again land size will not be so high

@PythonMaps So many weird boarders just boil down to "Oh, there's a fucking big mountain in the way"

@PythonMaps they look 800 kilometres in height according to this map, wtf ?

@PythonMaps That country which lies to the north of the ocean and to the south of the Himalayas is called Bhāratavarṣa, for there dwells the descendants of Bharata.

@PythonMaps Is the scale on the Z plane same as X-Y planes?

@PythonMaps This is also misleading - the height axis (z) can only be a maximum of 9km- so that is exaggerated relative to the xy axes.

@PythonMaps Yup, always knew Himalayas were 500 000m tall:

@PythonMaps oh wow

@PythonMaps Everest, the tallest peak is 8.4 KM tall, 8.4 KM on map scale woul barely be a short line.. But here the height is equivalent to>100 Kms on the map. this is Wildly OFF scale!

@PythonMaps India is like hanuman carrying Himalayas in his shoulder

@PythonMaps if this was true i would be able to see mt everest from south of india, but land shown is small, in actuality the mountains are lost in the curvature of the planet

@PythonMaps In this animation, the height of the Himalayan mountains are exaggerated about 10X.

@PythonMaps Here's a photo I realigned with Ps for perspective

@PythonMaps LMAO this is worse than a Mercator map. Himalaya's in Low Earth Orbit.

@PythonMaps Horribly wrong scale

@PythonMaps Vertical exaggeration?

@PythonMaps This is absolutely wrong. Based on the map you shared, if you look at the height of Himalayas then it will be 100s of kilometer high. But isn't highest peak is just 8.8kms high.

@PythonMaps So I can wingsuit dive from Arunachal and land somewhere in Kolkata? 😄 Dude have you ever visited the Himalayas ?