When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular buyers wouldn’t think of: She messaged the manufacturers with a simple, ...

This is especially obvious for maps that use certain projections—ways of representing the Earth’s curved surface on a flat map—such as the popular Mercator projection, which could be found ...

Yet in classrooms, newsrooms, publications and boardrooms worldwide, the Mercator projection presents Africa as much smaller than it really is. Designed for 16th-century maritime navigation, the map ...

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Of course Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem—his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map ...

A map showing how small some countries really are has left people shocked. Reddit users have been surprised by a map showing the real size of countries was posted on the site, in the week after ...

Snow forecast map: See snowfall projections by day The map below shows the probability that an area could receive more than 4 inches of snow in the U.S. See New York projections. Use the slider at ...

(Snopes compilation Facebook/@myamericatravel, Drennon) Drennon noted that the size difference may be a matter of projection, or how a two-dimensional map is translated onto a three-dimensional globe.

Why It Matters: The RCP electoral map projections are significant as they provide a snapshot of the current political landscape. The lead of Trump in four key battleground states could potentially ...

The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe ...