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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...