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Projection — the flat map must distort
geography
Longitude is time (15 degrees per hour, sealed), and any flat map of a sphere must distort area or angle - a sphere has no flat image (Gauss). Every projection is a choice of what to preserve.
source
Narrow Highway — geography
card id
card_geography_projection
address
WIT.codex.FCT/projection-the-flat-map-must-distort/REF.WITNESSED@narrow-highway
adjoining cards
- part of → Geography — the measured Earth — a pillar (Projection)
- connects at → The instruments — every verifier and validator, and where they join — map projection is geometry - no isometry from sphere to plane
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