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 ...

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 ...