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    Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 02:07:26 JST Information Is Beautiful Information Is Beautiful

    Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator map projection
    https://brilliantmaps.com/mercator-vs-true-size/

    In conversation about a month ago from vis.social permalink

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      Map Projections: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country
      from Brilliant Maps
      Map found via reddit, click for larger versionWhile it's well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how

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