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 ...

However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe ... of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was excellent at showing ocean sailing courses, very important to ...

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 ...

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 ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and ... the Mercator Projection. Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century ...

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

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 ...