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Nov 29, 2022 · Finally, an Accurate World Map That Doesn't Lie. We're long overdue for an accurate world map. Get the real story behind different map projections and see which one is the most accurate map of the world. D-brief. By Nathaniel Scharping.
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The new map is essentially a flattened globe that displays the Northern Hemisphere on one side the Southern Hemisphere on the other with the equator running around its edges, resembling a vinyl record in shape, Phys.orgreports. J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg, a trio of map experts from Princeton and Drexel Universities, are re...
Laura Geggel, a writer for Live Science, tweeted out an image of the new two-sided mapon Feb. 23. While the new circular map features a few spacial distortions, Space.com reports that it doesn’t downsize or enlarge the areas of certain oceans or landmasses like other two-dimensional maps. Phys.orgadds that the new map features smaller distance erro...
Joshua Sokol of The New York Timeswrites that no flat map of a round world can be perfectly accurate. The act of converting a three-dimensional object into something two-dimensional inevitably introduces distortions. “If you have a Mercator projectionon your classroom walls, for example, you may grow up thinking Greenland is the size of Africa (not...
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Aug 1, 2019 · The AuthaGraph Is The World's Most Accurate Map. View the world in correct proportions with this map. You may not know this, but the world map you've been using since, say, kindergarten, is pretty wonky. The Mercator projection map is the most popular, but it is also riddled with inaccuracies.
Feb 15, 2021 · For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work has resulted in the most accurate flat map ever made, from a trio of map experts: J. Richard Gott, an emeritus professor of astrophysics at Princeton and creator of a ...
Feb 17, 2021 · We found that the best previously known flat map projection for the globe is the Winkel tripel used by the National Geographic Society, with an error score of 4.563. It has straight pole lines...
Feb 22, 2021 · According to the team's rating system, the top-rated flat map projection is the Winkel Tripel, a map that originated in 1921, when German cartographer Oswald Winkel proposed it, and which the...
Mar 8, 2022 · Overlaying hundreds of maps at a time shows just how distorted the world gets when map makers try to flatten out the globe, as data scientist Michael Freeman, from the University of Washington Information School, reveals in this interactive visualization:
