It's well known that every world map is inaccurate, to one degree or another. The amount of distortion it introduces to the geographic features on it depends on the specific map projection used. Hundreds of map projections have been invented over the last two thousand years, but many commentators, including myself, remain …
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Introducing the Danseiji Projections
Update 2024: There is now a new and improved version of these projections called the Elastic projections that I recommend you use instead. See "Introducing the Elastic projections". For centuries, cartographers have wrestled with the challenges of making accurate maps. They were limited by not only the mathematical impossibility of …