• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The simple fact is no map projection will be perfect or do anyone “justice”.

    You’re flattening out a sphere to a flat rectangle. A lot of compromises have to be made. So go with the one that functions best for navigation.

    • troglodyke@lemmy.federate.cc
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      8 hours ago

      Some projections are better than others. The Mercator projection at least has a use case that justifies its creation. This map has no purpose other than a political one.

      Everyone with a cursory knowledge of maps knows there are inherent issues protecting a 3d object into a 2d surface. That’s fine because some projections are useful

    • joel_feila@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Well a rectangle gives you easy direction, true north is always up. But you can map very accurate maps that are not rectangle. They just make navigation a bitch