Map With Accurate Sizes

Developed by john paul goode in 1925 this projection regains the accuracy of country sizes by adding ‘interruptions’ into the ocean areas, much like an orange peel. Accurate maps fixes the shapes of historical borders, islands and other landmasses, aswell as adding in microstates and the free city of danzig. In their true, relative sizes.

This ultimately means that almost every part of the map is distorted in some way, just not excessively. The most accurate flat map of earth yet. Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size.

Map With Accurate Sizes Continue to click along the outside edge of the shape you want to calculate the area of.

To note size(area) and shape are only two aspects of many others critical to producing minimally distorted projections. A map scale is the size ratio of a feature on the map to the one in the real world. The 2016 winner of japan’s prestigious good design, designers figured out how to translate our spherical world into a rectangular box. Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near kulusuk, greenland on aug.