Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

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 from of navigation. The flat map ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past.

Mercator Projection (Credit: Daniel R ... mathematician even developed an eponymous equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map experienced. Called Tissot’s indicatrix, the equation ...

Greenland: massive on a Mercator world map, but here's its true size between Africa and South America There are other projections of the globe that seek to represent the size of land masses more ...

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel projection, often seen in textbooks and incorporated in world news logos. It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just ...

“And that means that it is impossible to accurately depict her surface on a two-dimensional map.” Due to how the Mercator projection works ... Understand the world with a daily explainer ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th ... came up with a solution that worked for sailors. On his projection, the parallel vertical lines of longitude are equally spaced ...

And the Mercator projection has remained popular ... a spherical surface to a rectangular surface such as a map of the world while maintaining correctly proportions in areas," according to ...

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was excellent at showing ocean sailing courses, very important to ...