Rohwedder/Wikimedia CommonsMercator projection map. The Mercator projection is good because it preserves the angles and shapes of the world’s continental landmasses well, but it greatly distorts ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world ... (map makers) to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times and likely thought it looked perfectly normal. It was originally invented by ...