“Denes uses Map Projections to reimagine the earth and the place of humans on it," says Eleanor Pinfield, head of art on the Underground. "Here, taking on the cover of the Pocket Tube map, her ...

On most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. ... In the case of the most common map projections used today, what gives is the size of places near the poles.

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 ...

Unlike other projections, it can be folded into an icosahedron with almost contiguous land masses: There are several advantages to it. The Dymaxion map “is the only flat map of the entire ...