True. But that isn’t the point. 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 ...

So, a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution for the most accurate world map. In 1569, he designed an atlas that could be accurately used for ...

A team of three mapmakers, led by J Richard Gott from Princeton University, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the most accurate, yet flat, depiction of the world yet.