It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries:
How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map?
The most common world map used today, designed almost 450
years ago, is highly distorted — it's that classroom wall map that shows Greenland
as absolutely colossal. But a new map called AuthaGraph, created by Tokyo-based
artist and architect Hajime Narukawa, just won Japan's distinguished Good
Design Award for accurately representing the relative sizes of landmasses
and bodies of water on Earth. The map is so proportionally accurate that you
can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.
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