Time's Best Inventions of 2021 includes "A More Accurate World Map":
So there you go. The most accurate flat map ever made. The actual map is double-sided, however, thanks to those clever Princeton Astrophysicists.
They're full of ideas:
I can see a licensing deal with Weetabix on the, er, horizon.
Time's well-known for its predictive programming in covers, of course.
To accurately capture Earth on a flat surface “while keeping visual distortions at a minimum” requires writing a complicated Python code. ORFE Professor Robert Vanderbei wrote the code to create a re-imagined world map. His collaboration with Princeton University Professor Richard Gott III and David Goldberg, professor at Drexel University, “resulted in the most accurate flat map ever made.”
So there you go. The most accurate flat map ever made. The actual map is double-sided, however, thanks to those clever Princeton Astrophysicists.
“Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” Gott said. “To see all of the globe, you have to rotate it; to see all of our new map, you simply have to flip it over.”
They're full of ideas:
The map can be printed front-and-back on a single magazine page, ready for the reader to cut out. The three cartographers imagine printing their maps on cardboard or plastic and then stacking them like records, to be stored together in a box or slipped inside the covers of textbooks.
I can see a licensing deal with Weetabix on the, er, horizon.
Time's well-known for its predictive programming in covers, of course.