Mapmakers have obsessed over how to show the world as accurately as possible on the flat pages of an atlas and in ... Now, there’s a new map that claims to be the most accurate one yet.

If our maps aren’t always perfectly accurate to the world around us, then what does that mean for everyday weather maps? The distortion of size and distance is usually prominent on zoomed-out ...

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world is flattened to fit on a piece of paper it is distorted. This makes some ...