Their design was inspired by the Robinson projection map from 1963 which even got the seal of approval from the National ...

Robinson projection. DANIEL R. STREBE Updated Aug 15, 2024; The Robinson projection was created by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963. Date of map: August 15, 2011 ...

Arthur H. Robinson, a geographer who improved on the venerable Mercator projection for drawing the round Earth on a flat map, has died at 89 in Madison, Wis. His Oct. 10 death, after a brief ...

Arthur Robinson, who died Oct. 10 at the age of 89, is best known for the "Robinson projection." It was a solution to the "Greenland problem," an age-old cartographers' bugaboo wherein Greenland ...

There have been numerous attempts to solve this, but there are issues with all of them.For instance, the Robinson projection (final image), with its curved sides, is much better than the… ...

It serves as an update to the Robinson projection, used to show the planet as a flat image. But while the Robinson map did not attempt to show equal areas, the new Equal Earth map does.

The new Equal Earth map projection gives an accurate representation of the continents without sacrificing appearances. By Avery Thompson Published: Sep 05, 2018 4:44 PM EDT Šavrič et al.