Why are standard world maps considered to be inaccurate?

Question

I remember being told this in high school and being totally confused. My teacher told us that a standard map, or even a globe, is inaccurate. She explained why but I didn’t understand. Why is this?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Everyone on here talking about mapping a sphere onto a flat surface, but forgetting about all the *human* biases. There’s literally no reason for the southern hemisphere to be the bottom of the map – the Earth floats in space and the universe doesn’t have a right side up