{"id":3220,"date":"2016-11-02T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2017-04-04T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:22:50","slug":"authagraph-world-map-wins-japanese-design-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/authagraph-world-map-wins-japanese-design-award\/","title":{"rendered":"AuthaGraph World Map Wins Japanese Design Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Japan’s Good Design Awards have been announced for 2016, and the Grand Award has gone to an\u00a0unusual map<\/a>. The AuthaGraph World Map<\/a> “is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining areas proportions and unfolding it to be a rectangle.” Follow that? Sphere to tetrahedron to rectangle.<\/p>\n

The brainchild of designer Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph map was first released in 2010. What’s it\u00a0for?\u00a0In many ways it’s sort of a Japanese Peters projection: it aims to maintain\u00a0the relative sizes of the continents. From the page selling the map outside Japan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Every world map that has been invented since the Mercator Projection was first revealed in 1569 can be divided into two groups. One group fits the world into a rectangle by distorting the continents. The other group corrects the distortion, but at the cost of the rectangular shape. This is what drove Narukawa to create a map which is rectangular like the Mercator Projection map, and yet correctly projects the continents like the Dyxmaxion Map (revealed in 1946).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Japan’s Good Design Awards have been announced for 2016, and the Grand Award has gone to an\u00a0unusual map. 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