The Mercator projection is good because it preserves ... taking bits and pieces of each that make it “highly suitable” for world maps according to the study’s authors. For their Equal ...

It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big ...

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation ... land masses are greatly misrepresented. This is due to the ...

Maps are useful ... However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe, atlas or computer, it will always be fascinating and beautiful.I’m ok! I’m ok! A map projection is an attempt ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...

Astonishingly, New Zealand is frequently omitted from world maps ... attributed to the widespread use of the Mercator projection, which centers maps on Europe, relegating New Zealand to the ...

Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like. 8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world as it is now ...