Using these criteria, they measured and scored numerous maps. The lower the score means the more accurate the map, so a globe would score 0.0. At the time, they discovered the Winkel Tripel projection ...

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.

The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

STUDENTS have been left baffled after a school board rolled out a brand new world map for geography classes. School chiefs in Boston, Massachusetts, scrapped the traditional Mercator illustration t… ...

STUDENTS have been left baffled after a school board rolled out a brand new world map for geography classes. School chiefs in Boston, Massachusetts, scrapped the traditional Mercator illustration t… ...

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 ...

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

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 ...