Logi

Faithfully projecting a globe onto a flat surface is impossible and all projections have to balance a number of compromises. Mercator retains compass directions and the shapes of land masses but entirely sacrifices relative scale between equatorial regions and polar regions. This makes it great for navigating a 17th century vessel. Other projections strike a different balance, like this one, and sacrifice compass direction and land mass shapes in order to perfectly retain scale. On this map, my little Arctic island looks like someone stepped on it.

IMO a balanced projection will compromise on all the nice properties a projection can have, and if that isn’t acceptable, then get a globe.

Sure you do. You go there for the Indian food and the Thai food and we have a Burmese place we go to each time we’re in London.

And sure, might get some bangers and a pie while we’re there.

Icelandic here. Still no summer.

Just kidding, it was Tuesday last week.