Pedants aside Steve, I quite like it 
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I once lived in Vilnius; there was a kiosk outside my apartment where there was always a queue for pre breakfast vodkas. I was only tempted at weekends!
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This Award Winning Map is the Most Accurate Picture of Earth
The traditional world map, first designed by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, has long been criticized for its significant distortions.
It exaggerates the size of regions in the northern hemisphere, such as Europe and North America, while diminishing those closer to the equator.
Greenland, for example, appears the size of Africa on many maps, despite being 14 times smaller.
In the 1970s, German journalist Arno Peters publicly denounced the Mercator projection, highlighting its role in perpetuating a Eurocentric worldview. Even modern alternatives often fail to accurately represent landmasses like Antarctica.
Now, Tokyo-based architect and artist Hajime Narukawa won Japan’s prestigious Good Design Award for developing the AuthaGraph World Map, a groundbreaking projection that preserves the true proportions of continents and oceans.
By dividing the globe into 96 triangles, then transferring these to a tetrahedron and unfolding it into a rectangle, the AuthaGraph map eliminates the distortions found in both the Mercator and Dymaxion maps.
Remarkably, it also allows for seamless tiling, enabling users to reposition regions at the center while maintaining accurate geographical relationships.
The creators of the AuthaGraph map argue that, while traditional maps prioritized land, today’s global challenges demand a broader focus on oceans and polar regions. Issues such as melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and the territorial claims over marine resources require an accurate and unbiased representation of the Earth.
By offering a fresh perspective, the AuthaGraph map aims to help users better understand the interconnectedness of our planet’s land and water systems. Imagine, too, how this innovative map could reshape our view of 600 million years of continental drift
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For clarification: this stone is in Haarlem’s Bavo Church - the photo isn’t mine, but it’s where I got my organ lessons.
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How many parsecs would it take to cross in the falcon?
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It’s still wrong, it’s clearly upside down. 
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Could be their human rights record as well, I’ll get my hat.
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Apologies if this is already somewhere ‘up-thread’
Interesting if you are a recent Radio 4 listener…
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From our little domestic weather station. Dramatic change in temperature at 3am this morning, and so fast. Online I can see other similar stations and they show exactly the same.
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I can almost imagine an abstract shape including all of these grouped together with “Dread” as the central archetype.
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Interesting. But where are you located?
South Worcestershire.
Thanks for that
