AuthaGraph projection
Proyección AuthaGraph
- Date
- 1999 · confidence high
- Place
- Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Hajime Narukawa (1999)
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Approximately equal-area world map projection, made by dividing the sphere into 96 triangles transferred to a tetrahedron and unfolded into a rectangle, greatly reducing the distortion of continents and oceans compared with Mercator.
What it led to
- adoption as an official map in Japanese textbooks
- United Nations logo based on the projection
- equal-area alternatives to Mercator for education
- more accurate representation of Antarctica