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The earth is spherical. What occurs when Cartographers attempt to change the sphere into a one dimensional flat map?
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The earth is spherical. What occurs when Cartographers attempt to change the sphere into a one dimensional flat map?

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It gets distorted because they are having to stretch and compress certain parts of the globe

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