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, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Whether you’ve realized it or not, all of the maps that you are used to seeing are distorted. The most common map is the Mercator projection map, which was created by Flemish geographer and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...