This means that all globe-based maps, distances and calculations used by anyone navigating between countries are fundamentally wrong. Flat-earthers counter this by claiming that those measurements are wrong. The obvious problem with this map is that the distances between countries are dramatically different to the distances that have been measured in the real world. Whereas the original map was not intended to show the real positions of countries relative to each other (because you can't project a sphere onto a circle without distortion), flat-earthers consider it a real, more-or-less accurate map of the Earth. More recently, this map was adopted by proponents of the flat Earth theory.
Its purpose is to project a globe Earth onto a flat surface to use as a two-dimensional map. Early versions of this map date back to the 11th century. It's a type of map originally created and used by globe-earthers, called an azimuthal equidistant projection. This map was not originally created by flat-earthers.
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