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17 de feb. de 2021 · I and my colleagues Dave Goldberg and Bob Vanderbei (who invented the “ Purple America ” map for showing election results) have produced what we believe to be the most accurate flat map of...
25 de feb. de 2021 · Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work has resulted in what might be the most accurate flat map ever made, from a trio of map experts: Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott...
15 de feb. de 2021 · Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work has resulted in the most accurate flat map ever made, from a trio of map experts: J. Richard Gott, an emeritus professor of astrophysics at Princeton and creator of a logarithmic map of the universe once described as “arguably the most mind-bending map to date”; Robert Vanderbei, a ...
22 de feb. de 2021 · This double-sided pancake map is the most accurate flat map of Earth ever created. (Image credit: J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg)
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The new map is essentially a flattened globe that displays the Northern Hemisphere on one side the Southern Hemisphere on the other with the equator running around its edges, resembling a vinyl record in shape, Phys.orgreports. J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg, a trio of map experts from Princeton and Drexel Universities, are re...
Laura Geggel, a writer for Live Science, tweeted out an image of the new two-sided mapon Feb. 23. While the new circular map features a few spacial distortions, Space.com reports that it doesn’t downsize or enlarge the areas of certain oceans or landmasses like other two-dimensional maps. Phys.orgadds that the new map features smaller distance erro...
Joshua Sokol of The New York Timeswrites that no flat map of a round world can be perfectly accurate. The act of converting a three-dimensional object into something two-dimensional inevitably introduces distortions. “If you have a Mercator projectionon your classroom walls, for example, you may grow up thinking Greenland is the size of Africa (not...
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In 1569, when Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator flattened the earth’s cylindrical surface onto paper, he gave sailors the tools to navigate ocean voyages. But he also distorted the size of...
8 de mar. de 2022 · 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:
