A team from Princeton University shared a new world map that is less distorted due it being two-sided and round, similar to ... more like the globe than other flat map.' 'To see all of the globe ...

For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work has resulted in the most ...

Unlike other flat maps, the new circular map doesn't downsize or supersize ... Take, for example, the world map most people are familiar with — the Mercator projection, a staple found in many ...

Unlike other flat maps, the new circular map doesn't downsize or supersize ... Take, for example, the world map most people are familiar with — the Mercator projection, a staple found in many ...

Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall. Generations of children have grown up learning that ...

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 ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as ... they're actually arranged on our round planet, yet it's laid out on a 2-D surface. Flat maps must distort some properties ...