The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion ...

Canada and Greenland - are not nearly as big as we think. The world map distortion is the result of the Mercator projection, the map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books ...

On a typical world map, Canada is a vast nation ... better known as Mercator, and his 16th century map projection – a common template for world maps today – which distorts the size of countries.

“And that means that it is impossible to accurately depict her surface on a two-dimensional map.” Due to how the Mercator projection works ... the Philippines. And Canada, as another example ...

CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History application. A map projection is a way of flattening the Earth’s surface in order to present it on a two-dimensional surface like ...

Canada, China, the US and Brazil, also remains consistent across the animation. Originally designed to be a navigator's tool, the Mercator Map Projection has for centuries been a mariner's best ...

When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a from of navigation. The flat map ...

His Mercator projection map, invented in 1569, was the primary map that navigators used for years. It's the form that many maps still come in today. And the name he chose for his massive ...

It's tough to represent a three-dimensional world in a two-dimensional map. The most common way of getting around this problem is to use a Mercator projection. This method of map-drawing ...

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 ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...