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 ...

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 ...

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.

(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, ...

It succeeds in presenting a more accurate view of the poles, but at the cost of misshapen ... Called the AuthaGraph, the result is a world map that looks a little different than most of us are used to ...

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 ...

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 ...