Assertion: mercator projection | /r/HasProperty | popular
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text: Returning to the question of why the Mercator projection had been so popular, reading about its use by Google Maps led me to recognize what was perhaps the most important reason for that.
text: For example in choosing the Mercator projection, a popular conformal distortion, Greenland appears much larger than it really is because areas are exaggerated towards the poles.