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, ...

Mercator’s map was so useful to sailors that its popularity eventually caught on with landlubbers. Today, it’s still the most often used map projection in the world.

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Take a look at several different map projections. 0 Comments Share this. Facebook; ... The Mercator projection was created by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. ... Contact us; Advertise with us; Join our ...

A Gall-Peters projection map of the world, ... Alaska also shrinks so that it no longer appears, wrongly, to be about the same size as the 48 mainland US states as shown on the Mercator map.

Peters’s position was that the Mercator Projection—a cylindrical projection first developed in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator—was not only inaccurate, but downright racist.

But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection ... That should be part of the United States.'" In 2019, he ...

The map, observers pointed out, was only distorted differently: Where the Mercator projection makes areas near the poles appear much larger, the Peters projection relatively represents accurate ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...