I'm wondering if a dodecahedral projection might be useful for world maps. Or maybe even icosahedral? But 12 is obviously simpler than 20.

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@infobeautiful This one is fairly fun too.

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https://gisgeography.com/map-projection-types/

Inspired by a recent post by @infobeautiful about Mercator map distortion https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/113278039092776886

Map projection—Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection