Assertion: mercator projection | /r/CapableOf | distort shape
Facets:
value: despite its benefits
type: OTHER
value: drastically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Despite its benefits, the Mercator projection drastically distorts the size and shape of objects approaching the poles.
text: While it preserves the area measure of the landmass more accurately, it distorts its shape.
text: While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size and shape of large objects, as the scale increases from the equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite.