Narukawa says that his map is not quite accurate yet — some regions are slightly distorted. He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents ...

Using these criteria, they measured and scored numerous maps. The lower the score means the more accurate the map, so a globe would score 0.0. At the time, they discovered the Winkel Tripel projection ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we perceive size, distance, and even where things are really located ...

Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end up with some issues and some compromises. No matter how accurate you try to make it, you will end up with stretched areas, squashed ...

When it was done, it was the most detailed and accurate map of the known world that anyone had yet made. Grab a Copy. Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, ...

The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the map -- and it's absolutely massive.

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

The bathymetry of both Petermann and Sherard Osborn fjords has now been incorporated into the Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to completely map the world's ocean floor before the end of the decade.

Narukawa says that his map is not quite accurate yet — some regions are slightly distorted. He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents ...

Most of the maps we see on a regular basis—precipitation in Ontario or temperatures in British Columbia, for example—aren’t just closeups, but they’re often snapshots of accurate 3D globe ...