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The Duke of Fall :d6:

I kinda wish my social studies teachers had done something like this to really drive home just how much map projections distort things at the edges.

Each one of the pink lines on this map is the same "length”: 1570.8 km.

At the equator it spans 30º of longitude.
At 60ºN/S, it spans 60º of longitude.

A sectional map of a fictional fantasy setting. There are graticules indicating intervals of 30º latitude and longitude. Pink lines are drawn at 0º, 30º, and 60º N that cover the same distance. At 30º, the length is 15% longer than at 0º, and at 60º the length is twice as long than at 0º.
#worldbuilding#yewdar#cartography
Sep 10, 2023, 03:40 PM·Public·Ivory for Mac
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Mama Newt (she/her/Laura)

@valthonis Our teacher pulled a good one to illustrate this for us. We were given sheets of paper that showed a world map with symmetrical cut-outs and compared it to a typical flat map. The distortions were wild. She had us cut out the first map and showed how we could turn it into a globe with some glue. It was a real eye-opener for me.

Tried to Google it but can't recall the name of the style of map.

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