Narukawa says that his map is not quite accurate yet — some regions are slightly distorted. He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents ...

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The only real depiction of the world is the whole world itself. There’s an old joke that the only accurate map covers the entire earth, but it’s a 1 to 1 scale. Every other map has some ...

Narukawa says that his map is not quite accurate yet — some regions are slightly distorted. He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents ...

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