True World Map Projection. It has been adopted by the UN aid agencies schools and businesses around the world. Cartographers have unveiled a new map of the world which shows the size of the continents more accurately.
In cartography a map projection is a way to flatten a globes surface into a plane in order to make a map. The world map we accept today known as the Mercator map made in 1569 by geographer Gerardus Mercator largely misreports the sizes of Greenland Africa and Antarctica. The image youre picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projectiona 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly come across are based on.
With any map projection style the big challenge lies in depicting a spherical object as a 2D graphic.
Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented this projection in 1999 by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles. The revolutionary Peters Projection map presents countries in their true proportion to one another. In no particular order we give you our top 10 world map projections. Formulated by using other equal-area map projections as transformations.
