have produced what we believe to be the most accurate flat map of the Earth ever made. Depicting the curved surface of the Earth on a flat map has been the cartographers’ problem for centuries.

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator ...

The news highlighted the need for a better, more accurate representation of planet Earth. "We searched for alternative equal-area map projections for world maps, but could not find any that met ...

Creating an accurate map of Earth is quite a difficult task, but in 1999 a Japanese architect claimed to achieve what was thought to be impossible. The Japanese architect is named Hajime Narukawa ...

For centuries, cartographers have made numerous attempts to account for the inconsistency while trying to recreate the most accurate map of the Earth. Maps are compromises between distorting the ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that. Cartographers presented ...

You’ve (probably) never seen the world unless you’ve served a stint on the International Space Station. Only a few hundred people out of billions of folks alive today have ever seen an ...

New research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has pulled in super-precise data from both Earth and the Moon to account for the shape of both objects. The result is the most accurate map of ...

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator ...

No matter how accurate you try to make it ... According to their score system, it is the most flat map of Earth. “Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” Gott added.

For centuries, cartographers have made numerous attempts to account for the inconsistency while trying to recreate the most accurate map of the Earth. Maps are compromises between distorting the ...