Many documentaries seem to agree that the world map we currently use is far from accurate, and it’s misrepresenting the size (and even shape) of many continents, islands and countries. It’s using an outdated projection technique called ” Mercator projection ” that was mainly used for sailing back in the 16th century. Why aren’t we using a map that’s more up to date? Can maps like “thetruesize” website be relied upon?
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The earth is a very spherical ball. It’s not quite a sphere, but close enough.
Trying to put a sphere onto a plane is impossible without distortion or “holes”. There are ways to have less distortion, for example we could have lense-shaped cutouts along the longitudinal lines, but that would be even less readable than a map with distortion.
The only way to get no distortion is a third dimension
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