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>Also, nitpick: 381km is almost 1% of the circumference of earth. Because of that, shouldn’t that square bulge a bit on that map? Nitpicky reply: Without knowi
by chmod775 3y ago
>Also, nitpick: 381km is almost 1% of the circumference of earth. Because of that, shouldn’t that square bulge a bit on that map?
Nitpicky reply: Without knowing what kind of projection that map is, the answer is maybe. For all I know the projection is made precisely so that we can have that perfect square.
- zokier 3y agoIts wikimedia so it has metadata; it doesn't take much to find that it is LAEA projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_azimuthal_equal-area_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_azimuthal_equal-area_p...