The small-circle equidistant projection
It’s a simple fact of life that everyone loves the azimuthal equidistant projection, which shows the world at the correct distance and direction from its central point, even those who have never seen the term in their life.
For example, when centred on Sydney:
One particular point of interest is that Cuba is shown east of Sydney, despite being in opposite hemispheres. And while this is literally true…
It doesn’t do much to affirm ill-conceived views of the world perpetuated by cylindrical and pseudocylindrical maps. Wouldn’t it be nice to use terrible metrics for ‘distance’ and ‘direction …