Mercator Extreme explores map projection's wildest distortions
The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion, it yet has its uses. Drew Roos's Mercator Extreme shows how wonderful and how nuts its distortions can get. Above is a Mercator projecti…
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