The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past, maps were hand-drawn by using careful measurements of the ground. Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world ... The Mercator map projection is used widely ...

A map showing how small ... to other continents. "The Mercator projection was useful for navigation back in the day, but it really warped how we view the world. It’s crazy to think that so ...

But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century— is the name for the phenomenon in ...