May 19, 2020
There are lots of errors in our current maps, including distorted land and sea sizes and geographical misunderstandings. In 1999, Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa tackled the century-old challenge of how to accurately draw an oblate spheroid Earth on a flat plane, with the AuthaGraph World Map. The AuthaGraph World Map,...
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