Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking ...

Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past ...

Using the Web Mercator map projection allows us to use rectangular map tiles to dynamically load appropriate levels of detail as the map is zoomed in and out, allowing for a richer and more ...

Map projections were created to display the 3D earth in a 2D space by distorting reality in order to preserve area, direction, distances or shape. The wonderful alternative projections below won't ...

The world may look different for students returning to Nebraska classrooms this month. A new state law bans public schools from using a common type of world map that distorts the sizes of ...

One example of this is the GS50, the only projection where you can see all 50 states—including Alaska and Hawai'i—on a single, seamless map with minimal distortion.

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

There are other projections that fix this problem, but they look odd and convoluted if you grew up with Mercator maps. How big is Greenland really?

projection map 1 Articles Interactive Projections Take Miniature Golfers To A Tiny World January 30, 2015 by Sarah Petkus 3 Comments ...

Using the Web Mercator map projection allows us to use rectangular map tiles to dynamically load appropriate levels of detail as the map is zoomed in and out, allowing for a richer and more ...