Xavier Olive #30DayMapChallenge

Day 28 – The Earth is not flat

Earth is not flat. That’s a fact.

Projections are a great way to play with how to represent latitudes and longitudes on a two dimensional plane. Orthographic projections represent the view we have when we look at a globe from one side.

This view just tricks our brains. It really looks like an orthographic projections, except that all the continents fit on one side of the globe.