Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881. “We believe it is the most accurate flat map of Earth yet,” the trio write. It might technically be flat ...

“A map that is good at one thing may not be good at depicting other things.” The Mercator projection, popular on classroom walls ... Thinking out of the flat box: Software renders Earth's atmosphere ...

Known as a "planisphere," the map is aligned in a “north polar azimuthal projection,” meaning that the North Pole is at its center. When he published his work in a four-volume, geographic ...

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably ... “For example, Mercators projection is true to scale only along the equator, and azimuthal projection is limited to convergence of the meridians ...

Monte’s map is circular, with the North Pole at the center and lines of longitude radiating outward from there—what modern cartographers call a polar azimuthal projection, a very unusual ...