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Jigu — a world map that shows you exactly how much your map projection is lying
Every world map lies about area. The usual example is Greenland looking roughly the same size as Africa on a Mercator map, when Africa is actually 14 times larger . Mercator preserves angles (useful for navigation) at the cost of inflating area as you move away from the equator — and most of us have internalized that inflated version of the world without ever seeing the correction.
Jigu is a small interactive map built to make that distortion visible, draggable, and measurable, rather th...
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