The revolutionary map may look unfamiliar but it solves a centuries-old problem THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ...

A new world map projection created by a Japanese designer is unlike any that have come before it, and for his efforts, he has won a prestigious international design prize. Despite its attempt to ...

We're long overdue for an accurate world map. Get the real story behind different map projections and see which one is the most accurate map of the world. The AuthaGraph is the most accurate world map ...

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 highly ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Like all planets, Earth isn't flat.

Japanese architect and artist Hajime Narukawa created what has been deemed the most accurate world map and has just won an award for it. Narukawa, who created the map at Keio University's Graduate ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

You’re probably fairly familiar with the map of the world with Britain in the middle, a massive Greenland and smaller sub-continent. You’re probably also aware that the map, that was introduced in ...

The Good Design Grand Award, arguably Japan’s most prestigious award for design, just went out to architect Hajime Narukawa’s completely groundbreaking design for a map of the world. His map, the ...

Cape Town - How we view the world is a very relative matter. Think about Australia and New Zealand, for example. They're those small little islands at the bottom of the world, right? Wrong. Australia ...

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This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...