Talk:Mountain Glenn/@comment-26317073-20150531203611/@comment-24891101-20150601211219

I accpet that. Anyone can point out errors. I welcome that. And yes, human error in calculation and interpretation is a risk.

Do note that most of the work was done by ImageJ, a software developed by NIH for image analysis. The only math I did by hand (in a calculator) was the gravity calculation. It checks out dimensionally, and closely matches Earth's size.

Really, the biggest issue is my simplifying assumption of an equirectangular projection. I'm not a cartographer. The map could be (and probably is) another projection. My numbers are probably wrong. But they're the correct order of magnitude, and probably even closer, considering Vale seems equatorial. Even if Vale's only the size of Spain (about half the size of Egypt), it's still demonstrative of the scale of the city. The intent of the paper was less to establish an exact size and more to demonstrate that Vale is a gargantuan megalopolis.