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Really? In my entire lifetime I’ve seen maybe five? Including the one hanging up in my childhood home. Even Google Maps uses Mercator by default.
by zztop44 3y ago
Really? In my entire lifetime I’ve seen maybe five? Including the one hanging up in my childhood home. Even Google Maps uses Mercator by default.
- cityofdelusion 3y agoI wonder how much location bias affects this. I also grew up with basically only seeing equal-area projections and globes -- that's just what my school district used. It was weird seeing all the online memes about Mercator when I grew up never seeing it, heh.
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- rusticpenn 3y agoI had mostly seen this projection, until i grew up. https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/Political-World-Map-3360.jpg https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/Political-World-Map-3360....