It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator projection is better for navigation on the tradeoff for distorted area at the poles. Neil Kaye provides an animation:
Animating the mercator projection so countries and territories are correct size and shape in relation to each other.#dataviz #30Daymapchallenge #worldisnotflat #day28 pic.twitter.com/968GSBepA1
— Neil Kaye (@neilrkaye) November 28, 2021
See also the Mercator projection with the poles shifted to where you live and this physical demo of how all maps have their distortions.
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