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    5 days ago

    Anyone know of a 2D map print of true size? All I’ve found print wise is Mercator or other such variations.

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      5 days ago

      I don’t know what you mean by “other such variations”, but maybe you are looking for a map with something like the Mollweide projection? That’s a bit of distortion in shape but trying to keep areas real.

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          The projection is the mathematical transformation from the curved surface of the Earth to a mathematical surface. You can have types of projections based on the mathematical surface (conical, cylindrical…), or based on the features they want to rescue from this transformation (conformal, equal-area…), but, sorry, I’ve never heard of a classification based on these “slices”. Moreover, now that I think of it, even those projections we are familiar with have to be cut somewhere.

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              5 days ago

              No, I know what you mean but that looks like some azimuthal projections put together in some conventional way. Maybe the concept you are looking for is a “composite” projection?

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        5 days ago

        No, because Africa is larger than Russia, this shows Russia as massive.

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          You may want to double check that, or you probably will need an imaginary map.