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4 mar 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.
15 lut 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 ...
16 lut 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.
22 lut 2021 · These two "pancakes" represent the most accurate flat map of Earth ever made, the study researchers said.
15 lut 2021 · For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. 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 ...
10 lis 2021 · A More Accurate World Map | TIME. Nov. 10, 2021. SHARE. + READ ARTICLE. [video id=3xavhZim ] In 1569, when Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator flattened the earth’s cylindrical surface onto...
24 lut 2021 · Correcting distortions and distances seen in previous all-encompassing maps of our Big Blue Marble like the Mercatur Projection, Winkel Tripel Projection, and Richard Buckminster Fuller's polyhedral maps, astrophysicists have now composed the most accurate flat map of the Earth.
