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It's a dumb question, but this has always boggled my mind and I don't have the materials to do it myself at hand.
What happens if you wrap a piece of paper around a sphere, draw a map of earth, with all the sizes right because it's the right shape, and then peal off the paper? How does that not produce a size-accurate flat map of earth?
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>>3271504
what is your method for drawing a map of the earth spheroid
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>>3271507
On a plain? desu usually just copying it off another map.
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it scrunches up the paper near the poles
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>>3271513
no I mean on the spheroid, how do you plan on drawing the trace onto the paper on the sphere
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The most accurate way to do this with minimal warping gives you something like this.
>inb4 oranges aren't perfect spheres.
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>>3271651
clearly this is what world maps should look like
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>>3271651
It's probably even better since the Earth isn't really a perfect sphere either.
Also oh, I can see why maps shaped like that haven't catched on.
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>>3271504
Would look something like this projection. I forget what the name for it is.
There's a reason it never caught on. Imagine trying to use this to navigate.
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