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Map making is hard. You can't transfer spherical world to a flat paper sheet/screen without distorting it in one way or another. There was an article not long a
by kbart 11y ago
Map making is hard. You can't transfer spherical world to a flat paper sheet/screen without distorting it in one way or another. There was an article not long ago here in HN about this problem:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/google-maps-gets-africa-wrong http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/google-maps-get...