This World Map Is So Accurate It Folds Into a Globe. Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, this new map doesn't distort Greenland to make it look the same size as Africa.

The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

Using these criteria, they measured and scored numerous maps. The lower the score means the more accurate the map, so a globe would score 0.0. At the time, they discovered the Winkel Tripel projection ...

We might be biased (let's be honest, maps are pretty damn cool), but hearing that a new world map had won the Japan Institute of Design Promotion's Good Design ...

STUDENTS have been left baffled after a school board rolled out a brand new world map for geography classes. School chiefs in Boston, Massachusetts, scrapped the traditional Mercator illustration t… ...

Visualize the world map. You’re probably imagining the Mercator projection, the standard used across American schools. Unfortunately, that map is wrong: It’s a variation of Gerardus Mercator ...

World map with accurate sizes: Gall-Peters projection throws schools into a spin THIS is the world map many of us grew up with. So spare a thought for thousands of kids who’ve literally had ...