All Maps Have Some Distortion

Shapes of world maps have typically been diverse, ranging. A curved surface cannot be represented on a flat surface without distorting cuvture. Some were made for specific purposes, while others just tried to find the cartographic sweet spot.

Subways (and other transit lines) often use maps that distort geographic attributes such as distance or shape, in order to accomplish the task of telling someone how to get from point a to point b as clearly as possible. Shapes of world maps have typically been diverse, ranging. The least distortions occur in maps of the smallest areas, but even those are impossible to “stitch” together with other such maps, without introducing spatial distortions as the area increases.

Each of the map projections are made keeping in view of certain properties of the sphere, leaving others.

Powerpoint presentation | free to. The distortion is the result of the mercator map, created in 1596, which distorts sizes in favour of the wealthy lands to the north. The amount of distortion, however, is regular along some lines in the map. A conformal map distorts area—most features are depicted too large or too small.