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Ever since we realised that the earth is not flat, we have been faced with the challenge of depicting features on earth on a flat surface as accurately as possible, thus the study of map projections. It is impossible for any map projection to produce a geometrically accurate map. The development of many different kinds of map projections throughout the ages has tried to make maps less distorted in one way or another.
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Lee, YC. (2001). Map Projections. In: Chen, YQ., Lee, YC. (eds) Geographical Data Acquisition. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6183-8_4
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