Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a ...

Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past.

When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

What you are imagining is most likely not the type of map going into ... in your head when you think of world maps — that version is the Mercator Projection map. The Mercator map was created ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering ... equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map experienced.

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel projection, often seen in textbooks and incorporated in world news logos. It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just ...

“And that means that it is impossible to accurately depict her surface on a two-dimensional map.” Due to how the Mercator projection works ... Understand the world with a daily explainer ...

Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map ... Peters projection, replacing the popular Mercator Projection, will give them a more accurate view of the world.

“We searched for alternative equal-area map projections for world maps, but could not find any that met all our aesthetic criteria. Hence the idea was born to create a new projection that would ...