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minus-squareobserves_depths@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI’ll add that we use the mercator projection because it preserves shapes but not scale. There’s other projections that preserve scale but not shapes.
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoDymaxion Map supremacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoBut how will we ever know who the anonymous “West” is?
minus-squareZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoOnly the Mathematics and Cartographer classes, or the most elite Historians shall be able to decipher such knowledge.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoNone of those preserve the shape of Antarctica!
I’ll add that we use the mercator projection because it preserves shapes but not scale. There’s other projections that preserve scale but not shapes.
Dymaxion Map supremacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
But how will we ever know who the anonymous “West” is?
Only the Mathematics and Cartographer classes, or the most elite Historians shall be able to decipher such knowledge.
Szupermaci
None of those preserve the shape of Antarctica!