Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world ... When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a ...

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.

A "radically different" flat ... the better the map, with a score of 0 being perfect. The well-known Mercator projection, which created a square map of the world by stretching the polar regions ...

(Its moderated crowdsourcing arm, Map Maker, will end in March after cases of vandalism.) Google’s official objective is “to organize the world’s information and ... such as its street view photos, ...

Why are almost all modern maps the same way up ... to think of north as being the top of the world. Yet is it time to start embracing a different view of the planet from the one we are used ...

but he did come up with a novel way to change the view the window provides. Nearby is a map of the world hanging on the wall featuring glowing LED lights on five different cities including ...

A fascinating new colour map ... world design. The result is a striking image which shows the veins of the world in stunning and eye-catching detail. Every river basin is represented by a ...

LINCOLN — The world may look different for K-12 students ... western Europe at the center of world maps, the projection reinforced political and social views that diminished the importance ...

In a flip of convention, my giant, framed world map displays the southern hemisphere ... different points in space and you'll see a different view of the Earth, with countries placed in ...