• zpiritual@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    What? The projection matters on any scale and for navigational purposes will continue to use mercator projection on flat maps so there it doesn’t matter.

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      11 days ago

      It really doesn’t. On a ball as large as the earth, if you take a tiny section of it, it’s basically already flat. You don’t need to transform it mathematically to make it fit on a grid system.

      Maybe you’ve never seen a map made for land navigation? They don’t need to distort terrain feature size to make everything line up directionally.