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In ten days the world's map got redrawn twice, by two completely different mechanisms, and only one of them needed a vote. The UN General Assembly adopted the Equal Earth projection 164 to 1. Eight days earlier, one signature renamed Lake Ontario and was on a billion phones inside a week. Why every projection is wrong, what Mercator was actually built for, and why OpenStreetMap was the only map that did not move.
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