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Why Making Accurate World Maps Is Mathematically Impossible
- AnHonestComment 6y agoShort answer: One is a non-Euclidean space (world) and the other is a Euclidean space (map). It makes sense that you can’t map a curved space to a flat space — curvature is a defining characteristic of a space. You have to warp or cut the space to “deal with” that mismatch to make a flat map. Of course, it’s trivial to make a non-Euclidean map — a “globe”.
- sam_goody 6y agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/977/ https://xkcd.com/977/