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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 02:28:50 JST 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 Mercator map
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1. 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.
  https://cdn.masto.host/vissocial/media_attachments/files/114/297/255/168/030/998/original/5b3a2493196a2c16.jpeg
- Daltux :verified_blobcat: repeated this.
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  Coffee (coffee@floofy.tech)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 23:19:14 JST Coffee
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  1. The full image transcript doesn't fit within the allowed limit. You can find it by looking up 977: Map Projections on explainxkcd.com
    https://cdn.floofy.tech/media_attachments/files/114/297/268/981/141/457/original/90094153729e1bf4.png

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