New view of the world:
'Tokyo-based architect & artist Hajime Narukawa won Japan's prestigious Good Design Award for developing the AuthaGraph World Map, a groundbreaking projection that preserves the true proportions of continents & oceans.
By dividing the globe into 96 triangles, then transferring these to a tetrahedron & unfolding it into a rectangle, the AuthaGraph map eliminates the distortions found in both the Mercator & Dymaxion maps'
h/t Phillip Richardson/LinkedIn
I'm sure they would....
Ha ha, never seen this; made me smile (and boosted), thanks
@christineburns @ChrisMayLA6 Yes, there's several ways to display the world, based on what's important (for example, north is not really important unless you're navigating, or maybe thinking of things like climate).
But in terms of population, or "land where people live", the central location of Asia is of course absolutely a well founded choice, like this other map, where countries are scaled for population, shows.
It's a Japanese map and it puts Japan on the centre. Supposedly you could use the same projection to put Europe or NAmerica to the centre if wanted.
(But I feel that for all its PR it does distord, and is not really better than any other projection. Maps should be made for the use intended. One-size maps are always problematic.)
There are some politics in putting Europe to the corner and distorting its form, putting Japan to the centre, etc.
A 2D map can not be apolitical. It can only change toward which the map is biased for.
The answer can't be an one-size-fits-all, but rather creating maps tailored to the place where they're being sold.
And ofc, for electric maps like the one provided by Google, having the map be an azimuth that's regenerated when focus is moved would probably be the best bet.
Well, the distortion falls into the sea.
@ChrisMayLA6
Another one that preserves neither bearing nor scale, but with bonus crooked parallels/meridians. Afff.
I'll stick with Mercator and make another data point for XKCD #977 :)
Aha, I just picked it up from an account on LinkedIn that seemed to imply (if not state) that it was recently done....
And it's a special case of a polyhedral map projection [1]. My guess is that it's the Lee conformal world in a tetrahedron projection [2]. Cut the corners of the triangle and rotate and paste back together the cut pieces and the triangle becomes a rectangle where the mapping is continuous internal to the rectangle.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral_map_projection
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_conformal_world_in_a_tetrahedron
Yes, this has been a theme in many replies to the original post, and is a fair comment - the interesting thing is, of course, that it also makes one wonder about the distortions in the commonplace projection(s)
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