The map problem is that in reverse - to get the middle of the globe to fit smoothly ... today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world ...

The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents. For example, when compared to a globe, the island of Greenland at the top of the ...

The Internet has brought us the ability to share data all over the globe, and nearly instantaneously ... reasonably legible world map using the Web Mercator projection to fit the rectangular ...