The authors of this paper claim their results are the most accurate 2D map to date, publishing their creation in a preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) on arXiv. The two-sided map.

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before.

Covering 40% of the world’s population, 400 cities and metro areas received new high-resolution 3D imagery in both Maps and Earth. Meanwhile, the I’m Feeling Lucky feature added to Earth last ...

Researchers at Washington University in St.Louis have built what they claim is the world's fastest 2D receive-only camera, which is able to capture images at a rate of up to 100 billion frames per ...

So first his system renders a 3D reconstruction of the 2D image in very low resolution. You can still get a lot from that — for example, that the outer third of the whole volume appears to be empty.