Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in ... This is due to the Mercator Projection, a map type dating back to 1569, introduced by Geradus Mercator.

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

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 ...

Greenland is particularly exaggerated on a Mercator map and appears to be larger than ... It distorts little and comes closest to how Earth looks as seen from space, which is one reason why ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...