World Map In Sphere Shape. Polyhedral maps are nothing new in 1943 Buckminster Fuller broke the world into regular shapes and provided instructions for how to fold it up and assemble it as a polyhedral globe but while he could protect the shapes of continents Fuller shredded the oceans and increased many distances such as between Australia and Antarctica. All projections of a sphere on a plane necessarily distort the surface in some way and to some extent.
Polyhedral maps can be folded up into a polyhedral approximation to the sphere using particular projection to map each face with low distortion. True Scale Map of the World Shows How Big Countries Really Are By Aristos Georgiou On 102318 at 1054 AM EDT A mosaic of world countries retaining their correct size and shape. Natural Earth - world maps - Excellent world shapefile maps with national boundaries first order admin provinces states etc disputed areas coastlines populated areas and more at various scale levels.
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All projections of a sphere on a plane necessarily distort the surface in some way and to some extent. Make the world map a double-sided circle like a vinyl record. This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. In cartography a map projection is a way to flatten a globes surface into a plane in order to make a map.
