True Projection World Map

The wall map is presented in a new equal earth projection which shows countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Unlike to the maphill's physical map of gujarat, topographic map uses contour lines instead of colors to show the shape of the surface. 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.

We found that the best previously known flat map projection for the globe is the winkel tripel used by the national geographic society, with an error score of 4.563. Map found via reddit, click for larger version while it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much. Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size.

The map is thereby conformal.

As with other maps, the tops and sides suffer from the most distortion. The map is thereby conformal. Despite its drawbacks, the projection became the standard map for nautical navigation because it. The result is a more accurate depiction of countries and landmasses.