If it was working for everyone, there would never be a widespread movement that got Mercator largely phased out of education.
If it was working for everyone, there would never be a widespread movement that got Mercator largely phased out of education.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It was working for everyone in navigation, where angles mattered. Which is why it became the most used map.
It was phased out in favour of maps showing area more correctly, because navigation w. maps became less important, not because “it didn’t work”.