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Apr 19, 2021 · When cartographers — people who make maps — set out to portray the Earth, they have to turn a 3-D sphere into a 2-D map. And that’s a lot harder than it sounds. Smooshing the globe into a flat image usually distorts lots of surface features. Some expand. Others shrink, sometimes by a lot.
Mar 22, 2017 · Simply put, the world is round and a map is flat. Imagine drawing a world map on an orange, peeling the skin to leave a single piece and then flattening it. It would, of course, rip.
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Feb 25, 2021 · You know the old problem of how to portray the round globe of Earth on a flat map? Now a trio of map experts has worked together to solve this problem. Their new map is 2-sided and round.
- Mercator. The most popular projection is the Mercator projection. The Mercator projection was created in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator for navigational purposes and became popular because it shows relative sizes accurately and is useful for navigation.
- Robinson. The Robinson projection is a map projection of the earth’s surface onto an imaginary sphere. It was created by Arthur Robinson in 1963. The Robinson projection is often used for world maps in school textbooks because it reduces to a rectangle and so can be easily printed on one page.
- Gall-Peters. Gall-Peters projection is a cylindrical world map projection and was proposed by James Gall and Arno Peters. Gall described this projection in 1855 and in 1973 Peter began to heavily use this projection.
- Winkel-Tripel. The Winkel-Tripel map projection is a modified azimuthal projection. It was developed by Oswald Winkel in 1921. The goal is to minimize the three types of distortion i.e: Area, Distance and Directions.
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Apr 30, 2015 · But Earth itself is round, so how do you create an accurate flat map? Throughout history cartographers around the world have found different methods for creating flat maps of Earth. None can...
Jan 15, 2022 · Various other flat maps have been drawn over the centuries, but they all have the same issue: It is impossible to portray the 3D Earth on a 2D map without compromise.
Mar 8, 2022 · It's round, not unlike Earth, but also flat like a pancake – in an attempt to give us a less distorted view of the world. "We're proposing a radically different kind of map," said Princeton University astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, who designed the new spread with mathematician Robert Vanderbrei and physicist David Goldberg from Drexel ...
