Ana Sofia Vargas Puentes

WHY ALL WORLD MAPS ARE WRONG?

All the maps of the world that we know are wrong because to make a map on a flat
surface you would have to take a terrestrial globe and open it, make cuts, stretch it,
that is, it would not be exactly how the earth is in reality. There is a distortion of
everything. For a bit of accuracy in In the year 1756 a German mathematician
named Johann Heinrich Lambert created the cylindrical projection in which a
spherical map was projected into a flat surface.

If we look at the maps, we could see these even though the location of the
continents and countries is correct, the size of the map may be altered by not being
able to make an exact map, since this is practically impossible.

We can observe the size and shape of the American continent and it may be larger
or smaller.
Over time, many people have used projections to try to make more realistic copies
of the world and put them flat. Today the Gall-Peters projection is one of the most
realistic and does not distort the maps of planet earth so much.