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?
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If you take an orange and peel it, then try to push the peel flat on a table. When you do this you will have gaps and this is why a map cant be accurate.
How this is solved depends on the map, the one you see most frequently essentially puts a cylinder around the globe and the just project what is straight towards the center axis of the cylinder.
Other ways include trying to preserve either shape or distance of the land or the sea
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