Description: Kartographie zum Anfassen: Hobby-Kartographen zeichnen NETZENTWÜRFE. Cartography for anybody: hobby-cartographers plot gridded maps.
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The challenge for mapmakers is to stretch the round Earth’s surface onto flat paper.
All solutions to this challenge have in common that they cause distortion, because the skin of a round ball simply will never lie flat.
Opposite you can see selected examples.