This latest map is able to portray both an accurate size and shape of the Earth’s landmasses, thereby resolving the two issues of previous world maps. The search for an unbiased, well ...

According to that new article, this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet.

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses ... makes this weird-looking projection a lot more accurate. How it's made is a fascinating process – now, what is it ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat ... of water on Earth. The map is so proportionally accurate that you can ...

The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations more accurately, charitable organizations ...

It's about the same size as the USA. But because a flat two-dimensional ... To help us better understand the scale of our spherical planet, a new, more accurate world map has succeeded in correcting ...

Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map ... accurate in terms of land size but admit it may appear distorted to those who aren’t used to seeing the world this ...

The world map you are probably familiar with is called the Mercator projection (below), which was developed all the way back in 1569 and greatly distorts the relative areas of land … ...

When this world map was charted in the 1600s according ... WikiCommons Critics argue the Gall-Peters projection is more accurate in terms of land size, but may appear more distorted to those ...

When people try, whole continents get distorted, with the most famous being Africa, a continent that is frequently underrepresented in size on most world ... the most accurate 2D map to date ...

But globes are bulky and cumbersome, so we still squeeze our 3-D orb onto 2-D maps. And thanks to a clever architect in Tokyo, we have a map that could change the world — or at least how we ...

while Africa appears vastly smaller than its true size. The AuthaGraph World Map tries to correct these issues, showing the world closer to how it actually is in all its spherical glory.