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A circle placed on a world map using the Mercator projection shows how distorting this way of depicting the world has become. The circle is highly distended forming a large tear-shaped with undue size and prominence given to the northern portion.

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    Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 00:10:01 JST Information Is Beautiful Information Is Beautiful

    Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the the Mercator projection

    In conversation about 4 months ago from vis.social permalink
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