The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

The new map is the latest example of years of research and critique by Gott and his colleagues on existing 2D maps of Earth. In 2007 Gott and Goldberg created a ranking system that gave every 2D ...

In 2007, Goldberg and Gott devised a system for scoring the accuracy of flat maps, where the closer a score is to zero, the more accurate it is. A globe, for instance, would get a perfect zero.