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 ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

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

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

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 ...

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 ...