The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe ...

Every map starts with the same lie: The earth is flat. The globe isn’t a portable, affordable, or even satisfying way to look at the world, so these exaggerations are necessary. However ...

At high latitudes the cylinder departs indefinitely far from the Earth: distances and areas are grossly distorted. As a result, Mercator’s map becomes useless at high latitudes due to the ...

The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe ...

Even if you've never seen Gerardus Mercator, you've almost certainly seen his work. His Mercator projection map, invented in 1569, was the primary map that navigators used for years. It's the form ...

The Equal Earth map aims to resolve many of the issues with maps, maintaining the relative sizes of the continents without sacrificing a ‘visually pleasing and balanced’ presentation.

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.

Google introduced a new update to Google Maps: when you zoom all the way out, the Earth will no longer be displayed as a flat surface, but as a globe. It’s a change that allows the map to more ...

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.

Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...