@crisps

[tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org]

@crisps

Maps are flat representations of a sphere engineered for various specific purposes.

Place a string on a globe, source to destination, that's the shortest air path.

Maps are complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection?wprov=sfla1

@bruces

[poleguy@mastodon.social]

@tomjennings @crisps @bruces most of the cell-phone generation and younger do not have a globe... nor any actual paper maps for that matter. :-)

[crisps@mastodon.social]

@poleguy @tomjennings @bruces Does Google earth not count?

[tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org]

@crisps

hmm. go try it! If you have a spherical screen, let me know where you got it! lol

but I imagine GE might deal with this.

Try it and let us know!

I don't have a globe either. Not useful. YMMV, etc.

[luca@sironi.xyz]

@tomjennings @crisps Google earth (not maps) is a virtual globe.

I think having a globe is very useful.
I've got a theory where if you are convinced that Greenland or Russia are much bigger than they really are, something bad can happen to all of us