@ekaitz_zarraga @jd Basically, pretty much every attempt at map "projection" is an attempt to make sense out of the topography of a sphere on a sheet of paper. Gotta make it fit somehow.

The first time I saw Earth on TV via an Apollo mission telecast, it took me forever to make sense of it - not just because of the swirling cloud cover, but because it wasn't in "north is up" position like the globe in school.