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New World Map Tries to Fix Distorted Views of Earth - The New York Times

New World Map Tries to Fix Distorted Views of Earth - The New York Times

New World Map Tries to Fix Distorted Views of Earth - The New York Times
Feb 24, 2021 57 secs

Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime.

The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by National Geographic, dates to 1921.

Make the world map a double-sided circle, like a vinyl record.

Some projections, such as Mercator, aim to excel at one of these concerns, which aggravates other errors.

Other maps compromise, like the Winkel Tripel, so named because it tries to strike a balance between three kinds of distortion.

Gott and David Goldberg, a cosmologist at Drexel University in Philadelphia, developed a scoring system that could sum up these different kinds of error.

The Winkel Tripel beat out other major contenders.

Gott said.

“It never came up to me that it could be done in this way,” said Krisztián Kerkovits, a Hungarian cartographer working to develop his own projections.

You can see only half of the planet at once, unlike the Winkel Tripel and Mercator.

Gott, this is no different than the 3-D globe itself.

Gott, whose paper also presents double-sided projections of Jupiter and other worlds, envisions the new map style as a physical object to turn over in your hands.

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