Most Accurate Flat Earth Map
The 2016 winner of japan s prestigious good design designers figured out how to translate our spherical world into a rectangular box.
Most accurate flat earth map. In fact authagraph world map is so proportionally perfect it magically folds it into a three dimensional globe. The map that seems to be referred to as the most accurate is the gleason s new standard map of the world. The design called authagraph is so good it s took out japan s biggest design accolade the good design award in 2016. The center point of the map is the north pole and antarctica surrounds the outside.
It s impossible to accurately represent a curved planet on a flat surface without cutting or stretching part of it. You can download the full resolution map by clicking the link. So accurate were these maps that many were held to be state secrets. But a designer in japan has created a map that s so accurate it s almost as good as a globe and it s probably one of the best estimations you ll see of the real size of countries.
Portolan maps were used to great success in the 15th 16th centuries for their notable accuracy. Hajime narukawa a tokyo based architect and artist broke the globe up into 96 regions and folded it into a tetrahedron and then a pyramid before finally flattening it into a two dimensional sheet. The big problem with mapmaking is that while maps are flat the earth is a globe. He claims the above map called the authagraph world map achieves this task.
Japanese architect hajime narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries old problem how to draw an oblate spheroid earth on a flat plane. At first glance it is very detailed with latitude longitude and time zones. We may finally have a faithful flat map however. This is hands down the most accurate map projection in existence.