Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

The Authagraph World Map: how the projection is built. Authagraph. 10 / 12. The Mercator Projection: the most common world map you'll see. By Strebe (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.

The Equal Earth World Map, on the other hand, builds on a combination of these two—a hybrid map known as the Robinson projection map, which took bits and pieces of each map to make it highly ...

Mercator Projection Map . The centuries-old Mercator projection map, ... The AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the overall winner of Japan's prestigious Good Design Award.

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 ...

The Winkel Tripel projection, designed in 1921, is the National Geographic Society's preferred flat map, but even this has issues with distortion, particularly regarding the Pacific Ocean, which ...

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion. Expert explains why maps of Britain show Cornwall 'ever so slightly' bigger than it actually is ...

This is vastly different from the "traditional" map you picture in your head when you think of world maps — that version is the Mercator Projection map. The Mercator map was created in 1569 to ...