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- Because Earth is an ellipsoid, a world map, which presents Earth in two dimensions, is necessarily a distorted representation. (A globe, which is a model of Earth, eliminates distortion by presenting a map of the world on the surface of a sphere.)
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Jan 15, 2022 · Though designed with the best of intentions — to provide a detailed and coherent projection of Earth — flat maps are far from accurate; some areas look far bigger than they really are, others...
- Joe Phelan
Nov 29, 2022 · Why is an Accurate World Map Hard to Come By? For centuries, cartographers have made numerous attempts to account for the inconsistency while trying to recreate the most accurate map of the Earth. Maps are compromises between distorting the angles of latitude and longitude lines and the relative areas of the continents and oceans.
- Nathaniel Scharping
- South-Up
- Pacific-centred
- Azimuthal Polar Projection
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North is up, right? Only by convention. There’s no scientific reason why north is any more up than south. Equally, we could do east-up, west-up or any other compass bearing. Purposefully reversing the typical way world maps are drawn has a similar political effect to using the Peters projection, putting more developing countries in the generally po...
Another convention of world maps is that they are centred on the prime meridian, or zero degrees longitude (east-west). But this is scientifically arbitrary, deriving from the location of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. The result is that Europe (although also Africa) is in the centre of the conventional world map – a rather colonial pe...
All the projections we’ve discussed so far tend to put one continent in the middle of the map, giving it greater prominence over the others. An alternative is to place the North Pole in the centre. It is strangely disorienting to gaze on the world from a polar perspective. The lower hemisphere should be hidden from view by the curve of the Earth be...
Another way of representing the world is to display countries’ sizes in proportion to key indicators of interest to geographers today, such as population, environment and development. Predictably, the world map of GDP is dominated by North America and Europe, while Africa almost disappears. The population cartogram gives greater prominence to India...
- Donald Houston
Feb 25, 2021 · Bottom line: A team of astrophysicists has designed a radically different flat world map that is 2-sided and round. Source: Flat Maps that improve on the Winkel Tripel. Via Princeton...
Mar 4, 2021 · A new re-imagined version of a world map was recently published by a team of cartographers, and it just might be the most accurate two-dimensional map ever made. Among its improvements, the new map corrects the distortion many maps have that make Greenland look as if it is the same size as Africa.
- Nate Schwartz
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A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth.
Mar 8, 2022 · Some world maps are designed to preserve the shape of countries (called Lambert Conformal Conic projections), whereas other maps – those globes that bulge at the equator – preserve area; these are Mollweide projections.
