Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

These sailors needed a tool. To imagine how a Mercator projection works, picture shining a light through a translucent glass globe onto a piece of paper. Depending on where you put your light and ...

mathematicians and cartographers have developed a huge library of representations of the globe, each distorting a certain attribute and preserving others. For instance, the Mercator projection ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

said any flat map of a globe was “always involves some compromise”. “With the Mercator projection, it gained popularity because it was fairly simple to calculate and yes, you could navigate ...

Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the ...

published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. 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 corresponding ...

Mercator Projection (Credit: Daniel R ... Hajime Narukawa, a Tokyo-based architect and artist, broke the globe up into 96 regions and folded it into a tetrahedron and then a pyramid before finally ...

published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. 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 corresponding ...

The map problem is that in reverse - to get the middle of the globe to fit smoothly ... what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good job of showing countries' shapes and was ...