The authors of this paper claim their results are the most accurate 2D map to date ... and the researchers hope it will become the accepted world map. “Our map is actually more like the globe ...

But now scientists have produced a new 2D map that accurately shows Earth ... "We searched for alternative equal-area map projections for world maps, but could not find any that met all our ...

American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller's 'dymaxion' world map used a polyhedral net intended to be built as a 3D globe. In its 2D form the map divided up the continents far away from ...

It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just one of dozens of world maps trying to solve the unsolvable problem of representing a 3D sphere on a 2D plane. The Dymaxion map, invented by systems theorist ...

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 ...