Areas near both the equator and prime meridian are accurate, but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the ...

True. But that isn’t the point. 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 ...

The map itself can be laid out flat or folded into a three-dimensional globe -- and it's accurate both ways. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable AuthaGraph mostly fixes the problem ...

Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end up with some issues and some compromises. No matter how accurate you try to make it, you will end up with stretched areas, squashed ...

Certain aspects of his world map, like his successful plotting of the Nile River, are surprisingly accurate for the time. But his speculation that the Indian Ocean is enclosed by a land bridge ...

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If our maps aren’t always perfectly accurate to the world around us, then what does that mean for everyday weather maps? The distortion of size and distance is usually prominent on zoomed-out ...

a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room ...

Areas near both the equator and prime meridian are accurate, but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the ...

You’ve (probably) never seen the world unless you’ve served ... unblemished, and truly accurate view of our home planet. Maps and satellite images are a brilliant substitute for a firsthand ...