Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past ...

Narukawa says that his map is not quite accurate yet — some regions are slightly distorted. He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents ...

This World Map Is So Accurate It Folds Into a Globe. Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, this new map doesn't distort Greenland to make it look the same size as Africa.

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually look far more ...

We might be biased (let's be honest, maps are pretty damn cool), but hearing that a new world map had won the Japan Institute of Design Promotion's Good Design Award got us rather excited.

The Mercator map, the 447-year-old traditional map of the world, has been considered inaccurate for many years, mainly because Antarctica and Greenland appear to be distorted in it.

According to the Institute, the map’s importance transcends geography however, its shape forcing us to conceive the world in a different way, a way not delineated as East and West.

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s ...

Finally, an Accurate World Map That Doesn't Lie We're long overdue for an accurate world map. Get the real story behind different map projections and see which one is the most accurate map of the ...