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 Winkel Tripel projection world map was first designed in 1921. Notice how it distorts Antarctica and creates the illusion that Japan is very far away from California. (Image credit ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small ...

The Winkel Tripel projection used an oblong shape with less distortions than the Mercator map. However it exaggerated Antarctica and the distances between East Asia and North America, giving it a ...

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 ...

The institution, since 2013, has experimented with different projections, including the Robinson map, but in 2024 settled on the Equal Earth map. “The World Bank Group is committed to ensuring ...

Of course Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem—his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion.. Because Peters’s map ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...