Most Accurate Flat Map

Richard gott, robert vanderbei and david goldberg. Unlike other flat maps, the new circular map doesn't downsize or supersize the area of certain oceans or landmasses — for instance, many 2d maps depict greenland as about the same size as africa. We may finally have a faithful flat map, however.

New research suggests flattening earth into two pancakes, one representing the northern hemisphere and the other the southern, with the equator running around the perimeter. A team of three mapmakers, led by j richard gott from princeton university, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the. Jrowe's dual flat earth map is the most accurate, but even that is a long way out at the equator.

In 2021, astrophysicists produced what is believed to be the most accurate flat map of earth.

“we are essentially squashing the globe, as if we had run over it with a steamroller,” gott told sciencealert. We are essentially squashing the globe, as if we had run over it with a steamroller, gott told sciencealert. Unlike other flat maps, the new circular map doesn’t downsize or supersize the area of certain oceans or landmasses. Richard gott, robert vanderbei and david goldberg.