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Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude) (imgs.xkcd.com)

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https://xkcd.com/2807 I like how the Titanic ended up in the Caspian Sea

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[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

I guess showing the higher of the two (so doing east ∧ abs(west)), but it'd be interesting to add them together (east + abs(west)) and see what happened to all the mountains. Maybe if the sea level changes we'd get new islands entirely.

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