A trio of scientists have devised a new way to try to represent our spherical planet as a flat picture with a new class of projection that involves printing the map as a double-sided circle, Phys ...

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live ... A map with the Gall-Peters projection. (Image credit: Strebe; CC BY-SA 3.0) ...

The Equal Earth World Map builds off previously released maps like the Mercator projection map and the Gall-Peters projection map. However, these two maps had problems of their own.

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was excellent at showing ocean sailing courses, very important to ...