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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

who in 1569 discovered how to create a flat map that takes into consideration the curvatures of the earth, has been honored in a new Google Doodle. His theory, dubbed the “Mercator projection ...