The most common global map in the world is the Mercator projection. It's used everywhere from classrooms to Google Maps. But because it tries to take a round object and make it flat, it is also incredibly misleading.
Monday 4 July 2016
Why The Most Popular Map Of The World Is Incredibly Inaccurate
The most common global map in the world is the Mercator projection. It's used everywhere from classrooms to Google Maps. But because it tries to take a round object and make it flat, it is also incredibly misleading.
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The mercartor map has one advantage: it peserves the angles, i.e. you can use a mercartor projection map to navigate very easily. This is not possible with all other types of maps.
Thus i still prefer mercartor maps over all other types of map projections.
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