Users on Reddit have been left baffled after seeing a map with the true size and shape of countries — including Greenland — ...

The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping ...

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 ...

The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents. For example, when compared to a globe, the island of Greenland at the top of the ...

Useful, often colorful, and sometimes a bit confusing, maps can also be distorted. Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection that significantly alters the ...

The Internet has brought us the ability to share data all over the globe, and nearly instantaneously ... legible world map using the Web Mercator projection to fit the rectangular screen.

The globe, for instance ... The Winkel Tripel flat map projection, which has a score of 4.563, and the Mercator projection, which has a score of 8.296. This new flat map developed by Gott ...