![]() This new map no longer shrinks Africa, enlarges Antarctica, or minimizes the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. To correct all the distortions of previous world maps, Tokyo-based architect and artist Hajime Narukawa created the AuthaGraph map over the course of several years using a complex process that essentially amounts to taking the globe and flattening it out. While the new AuthaGraph map may seem strange, it is in fact the most accurate map in the world and is the winner of the 2016 Grand Award from Japan’s Good Design Awards. The Mercator, Peters, and Robinson projections may all be accurate representations of the world in some way or another, but there is one map that rises above them all. Unlike the Mercator and Peters projections, in the Robinson projection the only straight line is the prime meridian, all other lines are curved. A pseudo-cylindrical projection, the Robinson projection preserves areas and shapes between 0 and 15 degrees latitude, largely distorts area and shape between 15 and 45 degrees, and barely distorts area and shape in the polar regions. Robinson developed a projection of the world that looked more like reality. However, in correctly portraying the area of the continents, Peters had to distort the shapes. The Peters projection corrects some of the distortions of the Mercator projection and is considered to be an equal-area projection. ![]() However, the Mercator projection distorts objects as the latitude increases from the equator to the poles, so landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica are much larger than in reality, whereas central Africa is shrunken down from its actual size. ![]() The Mercator projection, presented by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, became the standard map for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course. All have failed.Ī map projection is a representation of Earth’s three dimensional surface on just two dimensions. No map can one hundred percent accurately display the Earth’s geoid shape onto a two-dimensional surface. ![]()
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