<story><title>Google Maps is no longer a flat map</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-is-no-longer-flatearth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bud</author><text>&amp;quot;On flat maps, it’s impossible to represent land mass size on a relative scale.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Um, no it&amp;#x27;s not. TechCrunch needs better editors. You just need to use a non-Mercator projection.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>You can represent size &lt;i&gt;or&lt;/i&gt; shape correctly, not both.&lt;p&gt;Anyone who uses the Gall-Peters projection is a cop.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Maps is no longer a flat map</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/google-maps-is-no-longer-flatearth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bud</author><text>&amp;quot;On flat maps, it’s impossible to represent land mass size on a relative scale.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Um, no it&amp;#x27;s not. TechCrunch needs better editors. You just need to use a non-Mercator projection.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbob2000</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s still not an accurate map. 3D maps don&amp;#x27;t have projection issues, they can have near perfect representation of the world.</text></comment>