stretching the fabric of reality

[waider]

This is the old armoury in Phoenix Park. Note how the Google version is laterally elongated compared to the Mapflow one. I don’t know which is the accurate view, but I think it’s the Mapflow one; the armoury is, I think, intended to be shaped like a fivefour-pointed star sans distortion.

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[catbear.livejournal.com]

Google uses what seems to me to be a modified equal-area projection, so everything is wider than it should be, especially the farther north you go.