Interactive Comparison of Map Projections

This is super neat, but it is missing my favorite projection: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Transverse_Mercator_projection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Transverse_Mercator_projection</a>. To think that Mercator has the same error profile as Transverse Mercator, but we generally accept the former because of ubiquity, is very disturbing to me.

Why does Greenland disappear for some of the projections?

I&#x27;ve heard that all map projections are a compromise. Is this a leftover of printed maps?<p>If you take a photo of the earth, you can&#x27;t argue that it&#x27;s inaccurate, as it&#x27;s literally a photo. When you use something like Google Earth, it&#x27;s the same deal. You can rotate the map and everything is rendered fairly accurately for any given perspective. Aren&#x27;t they an accurate representation?

Interesting visualization.<p>There was also another page on the web which showed the various distortions on the maps themselves. While I can&#x27;t find that, there is also this slightly deeper dive into projections - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kartoweb.itc.nl&#x2F;geometrics&#x2F;Map%20projections&#x2F;body.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kartoweb.itc.nl&#x2F;geometrics&#x2F;Map%20projections&#x2F;body.ht...</a> And for a more humorous take, this XKCD gem - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;977&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;977&#x2F;</a>