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Nobody to mention that the property of Mercator projection is that it preserves angles?

Meaning that the points are not on the shortest path, but are close to being at the same azimuth one to another?

Basically a straight line on a Mercator projection is a rhumb line (i.e. a path of constant true bearing). This enabled sailors/merchants to plot a straight-line course by maintaining a constant compass direction. Could explain the appearance of those sacred sites in such line.

the article mentions it

Read it twice but didn't see any mention of this.

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