Flattening a three-dimensional globe onto a flat surface isn’t possible without some distortion ... Anthony Robinson of Penn State University. If you draw a line on a flat map from Washington ...

builds on a combination of these two—a hybrid map known as the Robinson projection map, which took bits and pieces of each map to make it highly suitable for world maps. The authors of the new ...

but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. 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.

"My academic grandfather, Arthur Robinson, said it made the ... National Geographic Society's preferred flat map, but even this has issues with distortion, particularly regarding the Pacific ...

“If you’re on a ship … it’s fairly straight-forward to translate from the map to real-life and vice-versa.” But this accuracy was achieved at the expense of distortion that increases the ...