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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The large map of the world on the floor of Terminal 1 at the old Salt Lake City International Airport in 2012. The map dates back to 1961.

Big data maps world's ocean floor Date: August 10, 2015 Source: University of Sydney Summary: The creation of the world's first digital map of the seafloor's geology is underway.

Colton's 1852 map of the world uses the Mercator projection, cutting off the highly distorted poles. ... "We hope teachers will use it to show their students just how big the world actually is." ...

If you can't see the maps, click here Greenland measures just 2,166,086 square kilometers (sq km), whereas Africa spans 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps depict a different story.

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

You can now see the tallest building in every country of the world on one big map, thanks to an obsessive documentarian of engineering accomplishments. The anonymous cartographer described the new ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Maps are famous for distorting the earth. Because they portray our world in only two dimensions, continents and countries become skewed, as does our perception of how big they truly are. And that ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.