Right, because apart from the moon, all objects orbiting the earth are considerably smaller than the New York Metropolitan Area which would not be your understanding if you took the visualization to be a scale representation.

I feel like the "objects" aren't anywhere near being to scale. Pretty sure they should be MUCH MUCH smaller relative to the earth to be realistic.

I mean, you need to actually be able to see the objects for it to be a visualization though. If the satellites were drawn to scale they'd be smaller than a pixel.

I think you can get a decent sense of how crowded (or not) an area is by watching how many objects pass though it. The state that I live in looks like it has somewhere between 1 and 10 satellites above it at any given time, which drives home the point that LEO isn't quite as "busy" as it feels from a zoomed-out, sped-up view of the map.

There's another comment saying that the ISS to scale at the default zoom would be roughly 1/150th of a pixel. It stands to reason that every satellite here is much, much smaller than that.

If they were, we wouldn't be able to see it in visualizations.