Undistorted World Map

The AuthaGraph World Map, which frames the world's physical components in a 2D rectangle, won Japan's 2016 'GOOD DESIGN' grand award. The GOOD DESIGN award ceremony is hosted by the Japan Institute for design promotion and was founded by the Japanese ministry of international trade and industry in 1957.

For centuries, maps have shaped how we perceive the world. Yet, the traditional representations most of us are familiar with, such as the Mercator projection, have been flawed from the start. Introduced by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, this map was revolutionary for navigation but came with significant distortions. Areas near the poles, like

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn't as extreme, however, taking the form of a much more gentle oval. The map was an attempt at a compromise between distorting the areas of continents and the angles of coordinate line.

Like all planets, Earth isn't flat. 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

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-proportioned world map has befuddled cartographers for centuries but the new Equal Earth projection may finally end the world map catch 22 once and for all.

Overlaying hundreds of maps at a time shows just how distorted the world gets when map makers try to flatten out the globe, as data scientist Michael Freeman, from the University of Washington Information School, reveals in this interactive visualization Fun interactive tool by mf_viz allows us to overlay hundreds of map projections at a time. A great visual way of understanding the

A lot of people have problems with the Mercator map of the world. Fortunately, The True Size is set up to help cartography fans see how much it distorts land mass by allowing users to move outlines of nations across the 2-D images. It is oddly addictive. A brief history of the Mercator Projection. It is surprisingly difficult for geographers and cartographers to accurately portray a 3

Narukawa's AuthaGraph World Map, which he unveiled in 2016, won the coveted Grand Award of Japan's Good Design Award competition, beating out over 1,000 entries in a variety of categories. His map overcame 2D distortions by angling continents in a way that accurately displays both their relative sizes and the distances between them.

This interactive map shows the true relative size of countries. Your view of the world is distorted. This interactive map will show you just how much World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our

The common world map in China, with China just left of a center position. Africa is on the far left west and the Americas on the far right east. Beyond a possible colonial preference of minimising the visual significance of South America, Africa and India, there are further dilemmas. In a world facing a climate crisis, understanding the