Originally posted by JudgeRightly
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This article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection) accurately explains it like this
Maps cannot be created without map projections. All map projections necessarily distort the surface in some fashion. Depending on the purpose of the map, some distortions are acceptable and others are not; therefore, different map projections exist in order to preserve some properties of the sphere-like body at the expense of other properties. There is no limit to the number of possible map projections.[2]:1
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