You can’t map a sphere to a plane without distortion, it will always look off because their Gaussian curvatures aren’t the same. The best you can do is approximate it. I remember there is one type of map where they offload the distortions to the ocean so the countries look a bit better.
You can’t map a sphere to a plane without distortion, it will always look off because their Gaussian curvatures aren’t the same. The best you can do is approximate it. I remember there is one type of map where they offload the distortions to the ocean so the countries look a bit better.
Map projections are a whole science.