The new map by Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg has an impressive score of 0.881.

For reference, the globe has a Goldberg-Gott score of 0. Unlike high school marks, this map score should be as low as possible to be near-perfect. It looks at six major distortions that happen in 2-D representation -local shapes, distance, areas, bending, skewness or lopsidedness and boundary cuts. To know how accurate a map is, Goldberg-Gott score is used by cartographers. He mentioned that the new map is 'actually more like the globe than other flat maps.' While we usually rotate the globes to locate places, for the new map one has to simply flip it over. But a group of scientists has created the world’s first two-side round map, which is about as accurate as a map can ever be.Īstrophysicist J Richard Gott led the team who created this phenomenal new map. Why that creates a problem is obvious Earth is round, and when one tries to ‘flatten’ in on a map, shapes and sizes of various countries is misrepresented.

Ever since school days, we were taught to recognise the cities, counties, and continents on a flat paper map.

No, not with flat-earth conspiracies, but actual scientists as well. However, in all this time, humans have misrepresented the shape of the planet quite knowingly. The shape of Earth as a sphere has been known to humankind for a very long time.

Accurate flat earth map