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Flattening a sphere onto paper, then lying just enough to make it useful.
means The craft of representing geographic space on a surface, deciding what to keep, distort, or leave off.
from From map, via Latin mappa, meaning cloth or napkin — the earliest charts were literally sketched on fabric.
Honest distortionEvery flat map stretches truth; spheres refuse paper peacefully.
Trap streetsMapmakers add fake roads to catch copycats.
Here be dragonsMedieval edges marked the unknown with monsters.