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The poles don't get identified with any point in the plane at all, really - the Mercator projection is infinitely tall, less a rectangle than an infinite strip.
by roywiggins 3y ago
The poles don't get identified with any point in the plane at all, really - the Mercator projection is infinitely tall, less a rectangle than an infinite strip.
The equirectangular projection does map the top and bottom edges to their respective poles, but Mercator just keeps going up (and down).
- pavel_lishin 3y ago> the Mercator projection is infinitely tall Well dang, I just realized that maybe I've based my homebrew D&D world on a Mercator projection.
- Sharlin 3y agoAh, indeed! Got my projections mixed up.