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on the one hand, it's a mathematical side effect of one of the simplest map projections, Mercator (which is also conveniently the best for navigation by sea) on the other hand, it definitely became the de facto projection exactly because it made the north look bigger
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If you want to learn more about this here's some info. In short it made it easier for boats to pick an angle and sail in a "straight" line.https://gisgeography.com/rhumb-lines-loxodromes/ …
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cartography is really difficult because there's no one way to make the globe into a flat map. mercator (r) was useful for this reason, and it preserves shapes and angles, but the sizes get messed up. something like the Gall-Peters map (l) preserves area but stretches vertically.pic.twitter.com/2Gr2iXhCXR
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Yeah. It is mathematically impossible to perfectly project the globe onto a flat plane without there being some distortion. So map projects have to make some compromises depending on what they are needed for.
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