This map of Earth is the most accurate ever produced, and it looks completely different

[Charlemagne]

This map of Earth is the most accurate ever produced

Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries-old problem - how to draw an oblate spheroid Earth on a flat plane.He claims the above map, called the AuthaGraph World Map, achieves this task.The projection, first created in 1999, frames the world's physical components in a...

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[poker]

This map of Earth is the most accurate ever produced

Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries-old problem - how to draw an oblate spheroid Earth on a flat plane.He claims the above map, called the AuthaGraph World Map, achieves this task.The projection, first created in 1999, frames the world's physical components in a...

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Pfft. It's not even flat.

 

[Valcazar]

It's not really " the most accurate" (its got its own distortions since it is impossible to make a completely accurate map).
It's really cool, though, and I love that it is tiled, so you could orient it in all kinds of ways.