Forget All the Old World Maps

longknife

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This Discover article touts this as the most accurate map ever while giving a variety of others that attempt to give a real view of our planet. More good stuff @ Finally, a World Map That Doesn't Lie - D-brief
 
A true map of the world cannot be produced on a flat surface because the world is round.

Take a photograph of the Earth and stretch it around a grapefruit. It doesn't work. Map makers have wrestled with this since maps began. They do the best they can do and that's it. Only on a globe can an accurate map of the Earth be placed.
 

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