It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

No flat map of our round world can be perfect, of course. First you need to peel off Earth’s skin, then pin it down. This mathematical taxidermy introduces distortions.

A 1993 compendium of nearly 200 map projections dating back 2,000 years did not include any, nor did they find any similar patents. “Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” Gott ...

There’s an elite group of travelers – they’re “circumnavigators” who have gone round the world, literally. CNN’s Richard Quest aims to join the club.

Astrophysicists have re-imaged our planet as a map that 'you can hold in your hand.' A team from Princeton University shared a new world map that is less distorted due it being two-sided and round ...

Despite the open-world experience that MWZ has for fans, many in the community tend to lean towards the Round-based maps. It is not merely an opinion but a fact as Call of Duty fans were elated ...

On twitter Google has said, “With 3D Globe Mode on Google Maps desktop, Greenland's projection is no longer the size of Africa. Just zoom all the way out at” Google Maps has seen a series of ...

Google has updated its Maps interface with a new approach – it no longer displays Earth as a flat surface but a globe, thus displaying our home planet more accurately. The 3D globe thus replaces ...

A TikTok video showing Russia dwarfed by the continent of Africa shows how many world maps misrepresent the true scale of countries. U.S. World; ... which is a round 3D globe, onto a flat 2D map, ...