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I hope I got you to look at a map. Maps are great. As a prize for admitting how bad you are at geography, here's a political map in Waterman's butterfly project
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
I hope I got you to look at a map. Maps are great. As a prize for admitting how bad you are at geography, here's a political map in Waterman's butterfly projection. - https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/waterman-butterfly/full.png https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/waterman-butterfly/full.png
- klez 7y agoWell that's... different :) For a moment I thought it was one of those map which for some reason don't include NZ, then I noticed it's actually on the top left. As far as I understand, different projections are more "correct" ways of laying out the globe on a plane, so while I have your attention I'd like to ask what advantage does this has over other projections?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoThere are no correct projections, only different use cases. Waterman's butterfly is very low distortion, conversely on a Mercator, paths of constant bearing come out as straight lines, as it was developed for shipping.