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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

www.thetruesize.com is a fun interactive website for seeing how Mercator maps lie.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What's your preferred projection?

To say that Mercator "lies" is to misrepresent the complications of projecting a 3 dimensional object onto a 2 dimensional surface. All projections "lie" in this sense because they're simplifications of reality - that's what a map is.

[–] grubberfly@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

this video is based on the comic: it's an animation on how each projection would change when shifted.

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