Before I show you what the new map looks like, let's take a deeper look at the old one. This is the Mercator map. Gerardus Mercator designed it in 1569, and we've used it ever since.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The world map from the old Salt Lake City International Airport sits in storage on Monday, April 18, 2022. Full removal took a couple of weeks, ...

The world map will be in pieces in storage for a few years, but it will be on the floor of Concourse B when Phase Two is done in 2024. It will be located where people will be able to walk on it ...

Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by National Geographic ...

When passengers walk by the map, they might notice that it isn’t a complete world map, only showing United flight routes from the 1960s. “You can see there weren't a lot of nonstop flights ...