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eppur_se_muova

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5. Thanks, never saw this before !

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 12:30 AM

13 hrs ago

(There are several better projections than Mercator, all w/pluses and minuses. I like Dymaxion because of other points Fuller made -- no "right side up", map can be rearranged to have landmass or oceans in the center. The best Dymaxion map should be in the form of tiles which can be moved around in two dimensions.)

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