Could This New Map Projection Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Globe?

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A recent thread Why Grid North doesn't agree with True North on maps had a lot of discussion on map projections.

Here is a new contender for best way to project the globe in 2D. I am interested in their claim. "distances across oceans or across poles are both accurate and easy to measure." We have had other threads discussing that difficulty.

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-astrophysicists-re-imagine-world-distorted-radically.html

Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s revolutionary, double-sided disk map minimizes all six types of map distortions. They used an equidistant azimuthal projection: a compromise projection, like the Winkel Tripel, with small errors in both local shapes and areas, instead of optimizing one at the expense of the other. Antarctica and Australia are more accurately represented than in most other maps, and distances across oceans or across poles are both accurate and easy to measure, unlike one-sided flat maps. Goldberg-Gott error score: 0.881 Credit: Map by J. Richard Gott, Robert Vanderbei and David Goldberg