AuthaGraph projection substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans and  does not have some of the minor distortions of the Mercator projection, a cylindrical map projection presented by Gerardus Mercator.
The map substantially preserves sizes and shapes of all continents and oceans while it reduces distortions of their shapes, as inspired by the Dymaxion map. The projection does not have some of the major distortions of the Mercator projection, like the expansion of countries in far northern latitudes, and allows for Antarctica to be displayed accurately and in whole. The Mercator projection (/mrketr/) is a cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. 
