New World Map Projection

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New world map projection. Standard world projection for the ngs since 1998. Usually clipped near 80 n s. Equidistant conic simple conic. 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.

Distances along meridians are conserved as is distance along one or two standard parallels. In 1569 mercator introduced his map of the world using a method called mercator projection. Other compromise alphons j. 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.

The new equal earth map projection gives an accurate representation of the continents without sacrificing appearances. I launched a website about the equal. A new world map projection. A new kind of world map above has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much.

The winning projection is called autagraph and its creator is japanese designer and architect hajime narukawa who leads a company with the same name. This process projected the world onto a cylinder in a way that all the parallels of latitude. 1904 boundary is a circle. One of the most prestigious design awards the good design grand award from japan was awarded a few days ago to something quite unexpected.

The world map you are probably familiar with is. All parallels and meridians are circular arcs. Narukawa developed a map projection method called authagraph and founded a company of the same name in 2009 which aims to create maps that represent all land masses and seas as accurately as possible. A gall peters projection map of the world which gives a much better picture of what the world as a whole actually looks like strebe creating a map of the world presents a fundamental.