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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the the Mercator projection

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• A circle placed on a world map using the Mercator projection shows how distorting this way of depicting the world has become. The circle is highly distended forming a large tear-shaped with undue size and prominence given to the northern portion. (remote)