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Re:More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Design Award (2016) by PLenz on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:14AM (#15123731)
Ugh, it's not more accurate, hell accurate don't even mean anything here. This is just a projection that makes different compromises making a pseudo sphere fit on to a plane. Projections are tools, different ones have different uses.
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Re:More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Design Award (2016) by ben11kehoe on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:17AM (#15123741)
It's also more or less equivalent to the Dymaxion map but stretches instead of disconnecting, which is a bit misleading, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
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