114 This Map thing bothers me a lot, and nobody cares when I talk about it (twitter.com) posted 1 year ago by Speakfree 1 year ago by Speakfree +122 / -8 86 comments share 86 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Isn’t it this way because it is impossible to accurately display a spherical map, on a flat surface?
Correct, and the main distorted map we use works perfectly for ship navigation, so a straight line on the flat map points to the correct compass heading for navigation to that location in real life. Folded paper is much more convenient than a giant sphere model.
So we basically draw like a "fish eye" lense view of an unwrapped earth on a flat paper so that when we fly or sail we go where we point?
Basically yeah, if you use a ruler and pen and measure the angle of where you want to go then follow that angle on a compass bearing, it will work. Apologies for the vox link xD.
You can but it wont be a rectangular or circular map, it would be like peeling and orange and laying the peelings flat
We learned this in grades shool.
The best way to do it is to make multiple slices from top & bottom about 90% to the middle.
This allows the peel to have tips/points at thd poles & very little distortion in the middle.
100%. Updooted.
This is why