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What are the differences between a globe and a map projection? Why do we need map projections? Which particular types of distortions are common in map projections that display the entire world?

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Answer: The difference between the globe and map projection. The globe has a diminished ball-shaped look and has a mapped surface map. The globe is bound to detail the information about a region. Map projection is a way of mapping the curved Earth's surface and heavenly bodies to the plane.

Some projections are used for navigation, while other projections show better representations of the true relative sizes of continents.

When positions on the graticule are transformed to positions on a projected grid, four types of distortion can occur: distortion of sizes, angles, distances, and directions. Map projections that avoid one or more of these types of distortion are said to preserve certain properties of the globe.

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