text: From a geometric point of view , all points on a sphere are equivalent -- one could select any arbitrary point on the Earth , and create a paper map that covers the Earth with strips that come together at that point and the antipodal point .
simplified: From a geometric point of view , all points on a sphere are the same . One could select any point on the Earth , and create a paper map that covers the Earth with strips that come together at that point and the antipodal point .