Fuller claimed his map had several advantages over other projections for world maps, namely less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Peters. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off. The Dymaxion map is unusual in that it has no "right way up". Fuller frequently argued that in the universe there is no "up" and "down", or "north" and "south": only "in" and "out.” Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created "in", meaning 'towards the gravitational center', and "out", meaning "away from the gravitational center". He linked the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias. ODT carries a number of South-on-top maps for exactly this reason (see them at http://odtmaps.com/south-up-world-maps.48.0.0.1.htm). Thus there is no one "correct" view of the Dymaxion map. The peeling of the triangular faces of the icosahedron apart in the way shown on this version of the map, reveals an almost contiguous land mass comprising all of earth's continents - not groups of continents divided by oceans. Alternatively, an approach preferred by oceanographers, peeling the solid apart in a different way presents a view of the world dominated by connected oceans and surrounded by land.
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