▲ 802 ▼ Denominator, go Mercator (mander.xyz) submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 137 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] huppakee@piefed.social 1 point 9 months ago but that was just Mercator playing a trick upon me Nearly every projection that show the entire globe on a 2d canvas will show you a map where the horizontal distance is almost double the vertical distance, so it is very correct that a journey from the top to the bottom is much shorter than from the most left to the most right. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] huppakee@piefed.social 1 point 9 months ago but that was just Mercator playing a trick upon me Nearly every projection that show the entire globe on a 2d canvas will show you a map where the horizontal distance is almost double the vertical distance, so it is very correct that a journey from the top to the bottom is much shorter than from the most left to the most right. permalink fedilink source parent
