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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we perceive size, distance, and even where things are really located ...

The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe ...

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...

When it was done, it was the most detailed and accurate map of the known world that anyone had yet made. Grab a Copy. Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, ...

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Cape Town - How we view the world is a very relative matter. Think about Australia and New Zealand, for example. They're those small little islands at the bottom of the world, right? Wrong. Australia ...

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 ...