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Old Jul 18, 2017 | 4:48 pm
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Originally Posted by LarryJ
Because the destination is beyond the "horizon" and wouldn't normally be seen from that point of view. The ground beyond the horizon is being displayed on that map in a very compressed scale so that the destination will be included.
Surely the whole point of the azimuthal equidistant map is that there is no horizon?

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