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While we’re discussing map projections - Tupaia’s map of the south seas deserves mention as a reminder that every map has a baked in set of assumptions and use cases: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2021/re...

(For further exploration of the ideals of maps, James C Scott’s Seeing Like a State is excellent treatise for pulling the boundaries of the question back.)