New World Map Projection

New world map projection

An equal area map projection retains the size of the continents as on earth but distorts the shape or the angle of the landmass a collaboration of three cartographers has developed a new. It is named after james gall and arno peters. The most popular map projection in the world has been around for 448 years now.

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One of the most prestigious design awards the good design grand award from japan was awarded a few days ago to something quite unexpected.

I launched a website about the equal earth. Armadillo projection this map attempts a kind of 3 d simulation by projecting the map onto a torus. It was created by flemish cartographer gerardus mercator in 1569 a time when antarctica hadn t even been discovered.

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Like any equal area projection it achieves this goal by distorting most shapes the projection is a particular example of the cylindrical equal area projection with latitudes 45 north and south as the regions on the map that have no distortion. In standard presentation pseudoazimuthal projections map the equator and central meridian to perpendicular intersecting straight lines. The gall peters projection of the world map.

The gall peters projection is a rectangular map projection that maps all areas such that they have the correct sizes relative to each other.

They map parallels to complex curves bowing away from the equator and meridians to complex curves bowing in toward the central meridian.
The new map is called the equal earth projection map and was designed by cartographer tom patterson and his colleagues bojan šavrič and bernhard jenny.
New world map shows just how inaccurate every map you ve ever seen is the equal earth projection hopes to put an end to distorted world maps for good.
Tom patterson equal earth projection map.

This is a cylindrical world map projection that regains accuracy in surface area.

In 1569 mercator introduced his map of the world using a method called mercator projection. Here is his site. The projection is named after james gall and arno peters.

Mercator was designed as a navigational tool for sailors as it was most convenient to hand plot courses with parallel rules and triangles on this map.

Whilst gall first described the projection in 1855 it was not until 1973 when peters began to heavily market the projection as the peters world map that it became popular.
This process projected the world onto a cylinder in a way that all the parallels of latitude have the.
A new world map projection.
The winning projection is called autagraph and its creator is japanese designer and architect hajime narukawa who leads a company with the same name.

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This keeps the continents in decent shape while causing the oceans to appear smaller and cutting off half of australia and all of new zealand. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. As with other maps the tops and sides suffer from the most distortion.

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