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the art of flattening a round planet and lying just enough to be useful
means The act of representing or correlating one set of things onto another — whether plotting terrain, charting data, or pairing each element in one group with an element in another.
from From 'map' plus the '-ing' that turns a noun into an act. 'Map' itself comes from Latin 'mappa,' meaning a cloth or napkin — specifically the 'mappa mundi,' the 'cloth of the world,' since early charts were painted on fabric. So every act of mapping carries a faint memory of someone spreading a sheet flat and declaring the world drawn upon it.
impossible flatNo flat map preserves both shape and size
greenland lieMercator inflates it to Africa's apparent size
brain versionYour hippocampus maps space with grid-like neurons
here be dragonsOne real old globe actually bears that warning
map egoNorth-up is convention, not cosmic law