New 'Radically Different' Map Is Said to Be The Most Accurate 2D Map Ever Made CLARE WATSON 18 FEBRUARY 2021 Admit it. We all have our favourite world maps, the one where the continent we call home sits right at the centre. And when that world map is flipped upside down or shifted to the left or right, everything feels… unbalanced.
Now a group of researchers has reimagined our planet and created a double-sided map – round, not unlike the Earth, but also flat like a pancake – in an attempt to give us a less distorted view of the world. "We're proposing a radically different kind of map," said Princeton University astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, who designed the new spread with mathematician Robert Vanderbrei and physicist David Goldberg from Drexel University in Philadelphia.