On the Ongoing Ubiquity of the Mercator Projection
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As anyone who has ever looked at a globe can tell you, Greenland is not as big as Africa, even though the Mercator projection would lead you to believe it is. The amount to which the Mercator…
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Squeezing countries onto 2D maps: The true size of Africa
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Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia
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Mercator Projection - an overview
What feature is distorted on an equal area map? - Quora
A realization of the Voronoi tessellation indicating the Mercator
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Maps: Extraordinary Ordinary Things • BLOG@UBIQUITY
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Maps: About Mercator projection - Qlik Community - 1472064
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True Scale Map of the World Shows How Big Countries Really Are
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Choosing the Right Map Projection - Learning - Source: An OpenNews project
Mercator projection - Wikipedia
What is the Mercator projection? What are its criticisms? - Quora