There is a natural tendency to view ourselves as the center of everything. How would Argentinians or Brazilians do that? As shown above, yesterday’s xkcd web comic, titled Bad Map Projection: South America, showed a phony Mercator projection with other continents replaced just by versions of South America (expanded or contracted, rotated, or stretched). Antarctica is missing though. An earlier comic explained What your favorite map projection says about you.
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