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 ...
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 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 ...