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Are those "rays" physical or caused by timezones?
4 0 ReplyRemember that the world is tilted as it rotates. The "rays" are from the earth's rotation at an angle changing the sundown time on an axis.
10 0 ReplyAlso the Mercator projection is infamously inaccurate. I'm surprised the straight lines are straight, actually.
3 0 ReplyThis is absolutely not Mercator (otherwise, meridians would be all vertical and the Polar Circle a straight horizontal boundary), and the diagonal lines do not quite appear straight.
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The timezones are the thick grey lines on the map, and you can see they are causing breaks in the "rays".
I'm not sure what's causing the rays.
8 0 ReplyThey're caused by how the data is split on the half hour. +-1min changes color drastically.
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