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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

(Buckminster Fuller Institute) Gene Keyes' refinement of Cahill's original butterfly projection. (Duncan Webb/Wikipedia) In a perfect world, each map projection would be judged on its own merit ...

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 ...

the Gall-Peters projection. About 600 school classrooms in Boston, Massachusetts, will receive a large laminated map that has come to symbolise efforts to correct the Western world’s distorted ...