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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by spacemanmatt on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:47PM (#26043666)
I feel like preserving angles is way more important to this math/eng crowd than it is to casual map users.
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Re:The Map You Grew Up with Is a Lie. This Is What the World... by gus_massa on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:24PM (#26044115)
Preserving angles is good for sailors. A long time ago, (almost) only sailors needed a map of the whole word, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection#Marine_Nav...
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