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Last Updated: Aug 27, 2017
What are Map Projections?
The best way to represent the Earth is with a globe. As you already know, we live on one big blue marble that’s the shape of a sphere (or close to it)
But globes are hard to carry in your backpack and you can only see one side of the globe. On top of that, it’s hard to measure distances and they’re just not as convenient as paper maps.