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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Because a map is a two dimensional object trying to represent a three dimensional surface, so if you represent the whole globe there are problems representing both the poles and the equator where objects are either too far apart or too close together. There are various forms of projections which minimise the errors this creates Mercator, Cassini, Gauss–Krüger and Sinusoidal are just some of them.
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