THIS little book is, in the main, what it professes to be, and is written chiefly for those students of geography who have but little knowledge of mathematics. For that reason the study is cast ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection ...

Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly come ...

Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in ...

Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map — and it is sending them into a spin. Authorities hope the introduction of the Gall-Peters projection, replacing the popular ...

Boston public schools have replaced the familiar world maps they use in classes with a new projection that more accurately represents the world's landmasses. For more than 400 years, the standard ...

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African ...