and distances across oceans or across poles are both accurate and easy to measure.Credit...J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg No flat map of our round world can be perfect ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of ... tolerate these distortions over time, although it's easy to forget how dramatic they can be.

To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually look far more ...

Now compound these challenges by asking 30 people to sketch a map of the world from memory. What would you get? In the summer of 2012, Zak Ziebell, now a 17-year-old high school senior in San ...