I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat Mercator Mars map by the astronomer E. M. Antoniadi.

Still, the new map is an intriguing and precise way to look at the world, and it's a good reminder that the map we have grown accustomed to is highly flawed. You can pick up your own copy of the ...

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live ... "Do you want the regions to be shaped as they are on a globe, ...

The Winkel Tripel projection world map was first designed in 1921. ... "Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps," Gott said. "To see all of the globe, ...

“Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” Gott said. “To see all of the globe, you have to rotate it; to see all of our new map, you simply have to flip it over.” " Flat maps ...

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Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end up with some issues and some compromises. ... “Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” Gott added.

In 2007, Goldberg and Gott devised a system for scoring the accuracy of flat maps, where the closer a score is to zero, the more accurate it is. A globe, for instance, would get a perfect zero.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Riddle me this, flat Earth theorists: If the planet isn’t a sphere, why is it so hard to put it on a flat map? At first glance, it seems simple. Just take the globe, peel off the outer layer and ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

The Winkel Tripel projection world map was first designed in 1921. ... "Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps," Gott said. "To see all of the globe, ...