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by femto 5185 days ago
Harry Beck used a fish eye distortion for this exact purpose, when he designed the classic London Tube map in 1931. The scale is larger in the dense inner city, where the stations are closer together, and smaller in the outer suburbs, where the stations are further apart. The net effect is that the density of the stations is roughly constant across the map.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck