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How do mapmakers show Earth's surface on a flat map?​

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With a gnomonic map projection, paper is placed on the area that you want to map. The projection is good for features near that point. The poles are often mapped this way. A gnomonic projection places a flat piece of paper on a point somewhere on Earth and projects an image from that point.

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