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25 de feb. de 2021 · Antarctica and Australia are more accurately represented than in most other maps, and distances across oceans or across poles are both accurate and easy to measure, unlike one-sided flat maps.
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 · According to the team's rating system, the top-rated flat map projection is the Winkel Tripel, a map that originated in 1921, when German cartographer Oswald Winkel proposed it, and which the...
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...
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:
Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, along with colleagues David Goldberg and Robert Vanderbei, set out in 2019 to fix the inaccuracies and came up with a double-sided map that is similar to a vinyl...
4 de mar. de 2021 · A new re-imagined version of a world map was recently published by a team of cartographers, and it just might be the most accurate two-dimensional map ever made. Among its improvements, the new map corrects the distortion many maps have that make Greenland look as if it is the same size as Africa.
