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		notachatbot123 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Ai... That map projection is the worst choice possible. It makes Russia appear much larger in relation to e. g. Africa than it really is.

Animats 5 days ago [–]

> That map projection is the worst choice possible.

For navigation, the Mercator projection is useful, because a straight line on the chart is where you go with a constant bearing. Aerial navigation is waypoint/bearing/waypoint/bearing. So most aviation maps are Mercator.

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