Assertion: mercator projection | /r/CapableOf | distort area
Facets:
value: severely
type: DEGREE
value: near the poles
type: LOCATION
value: wildly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The Mercator projection wildly distorts area: Greenland is presented as having roughly the same size as Africa, when in fact Africa is approximately 13 times larger than Greenland.
text: The Mercator projection severely distorts areas near the poles, and as such is not suitable for mapping the whole Earth despite often being used as such.