Obligatory xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/977/
A cartographer ranked nine xkcd map projections[1]. He reverse engineered several and remade them with R.
[1] https://geospatialstuff.com/posts/2025/05/16/xkcd-bad-projec...
Oh, it's not often we get an entire category of XKCD comics: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Bad_Map_...
I'm partial to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2256:_Bad_Map_Pro...
A cartographer ranked nine xkcd map projections[1]. He reverse engineered several and remade them with R.
[1] https://geospatialstuff.com/posts/2025/05/16/xkcd-bad-projec...
Oh, it's not often we get an entire category of XKCD comics: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Bad_Map_...
I'm partial to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2256:_Bad_Map_Pro...