Map projections

Ever since antiquity, cartographers have been faced with the thorny question of how to draw a three-dimensional world in two dimensions on a sheet of paper or a screen. In other words, how do you go from sphere to plane? Try peeling an orange and laying its peel flat on the table in front of you. There are a thousand and one ways of doing this, and whatever your technique, there will be breaks and deformations. In the end, the image of the orange laid flat on the table will be nothing more than a distorted