Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

The Mercator map has long been considered controversial due to its exaggerated depiction of Europe, which Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator placed in the center of the map, and North America.

I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat Mercator Mars map by the astronomer E. M. Antoniadi.

The map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe. AuthaGraph. ... There is one glaring flaw with Mercator's map, however.

Mercator Projection Map . The centuries-old Mercator projection map, ... It's significantly more accurate than traditional 2-D maps, however, thanks to a process that begins with an actual globe.

The Equal Earth World Map builds off previously released maps like the Mercator projection map and the Gall-Peters projection map. However, these two maps had problems of their own.

The Mercator map was created in 1569 to make colonial trade routes easier to navigate. In creating a map that prioritized straight lines of travel, land masses of continents became distorted.

As it turns out, the map we’ve long relied on to depict the world isn’t actually the most accurate visual. The Problem With the Mercator Projection A More Accurate Map ...

These two "pancakes" represent the most accurate flat map of Earth ever made, the study researchers said. Unlike other flat maps, the new circular map doesn't downsize or supersize the area of ...