China sent a spy balloon straight across U.S. skies—and it wasn’t just for surveillance. This video uncovers how the incident ...

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

I want to get things right for the public transportation users of this city, probably because it’s the city I actually live ...

The World Bank’s new sector-specific growth model breaks from aggregate-focused forecasting by capturing how labor and ...

This 1912 map uses the Mercator projection, which inflates the size ... Thinking about the world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas about how to get from one place to another, says ...

World Bank and BBC – to switch to the Equal Earth map projection, a fairer and more accurate representation of global geography. Through a global petition and campaign charter, the initiative invites ...

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 ...

The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations more accurately, charitable organizations ...

Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end ... It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe into a cylinder and then project each point of the map onto a ...

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 ...