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Comment by GolfPopper

18 hours ago

Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/977/

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jshprentz  8 hours ago

A cartographer ranked nine xkcd map projections[1]. He reverse engineered several and remade them with R.

[1] https://geospatialstuff.com/posts/2025/05/16/xkcd-bad-projec...

ButlerianJihad  17 hours ago

Oh, it's not often we get an entire category of XKCD comics: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Bad_Map_...

I'm partial to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2256:_Bad_Map_Pro...

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