Astrophysicists have compiled the most accurate map ever of the universe. Spanning a distance of over six billion light years, the new map plots the location of 1.2 million galaxies with an ...

Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Using these criteria, they measured and scored numerous maps. The lower the score means the more accurate the map, so a globe would score 0.0. At the time, they discovered the Winkel Tripel projection ...

The first reasonably accurate world map was drawn by hand on paper by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. His first world map was produced in 1538 and improved upon in 1585.

For Bernhard Lehner, an assistant professor in the geography department at McGill University, it seemed a daunting task: to design a detailed digital map of the world’s rivers.

The AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the overall winner of Japan's ... the AuthaGraph's layout looks weird at first. ... It's significantly more accurate than traditional 2-D maps, ...

World map with accurate sizes: Gall-Peters projection throws schools into a spin. ... Ms Scott said she believed Boston was the first school district inn the US to introduce it widely.