How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking ...

IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are ... are given of the principal types of projection, and then the distortion ...

In 2007, Goldberg and Gott invented a system to score existing maps, quantifying the six types of distortions that flat maps ... Using their metrics, the best previously known flat map projection was ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol 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.

I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. 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 ...

The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a ...