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The Americas and Africa are tilted inward and pushed to the upper corners of the map, while Australia sits perfectly upright at the bottom center. The lines of latitude and longitude veer in odd directions, the result of transformations that broke them from their naturally spherical configuration.
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...
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Feb 15, 2021 · Using their metrics, the best previously known flat map projection was the Winkel Tripel, with a Goldberg-Gott score of 4.563. But that still had the “boundary cut” problem of splitting the Pacific Ocean and creating the illusion of great distance between Asia and Hawaii.
Mar 8, 2022 · Known as the Winkel Tripel projection, and used by National Geographic for its world maps, it minimizes distortion to area, direction, and distance. Although, it's still not perfect, because the Pacific Ocean is cut between Japan and California, making it look far wider than it really is.
Sep 26, 2024 · While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much. Countries close to the equator barely change, whereas countries further north shrink dramatically.
This more accurate world map is made up of 96 triangles. Credit: authagraph. Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality...
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Every map ever printed is wrong, by definition. The job of a map is to provide a simpler representation of the world. A completely accurate map would need to be life-size. Worse, the Earth is round and paper is flat.
