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

The most common map is the Mercator projection map, which was created by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, according to IFLScience. Lars H. Rohwedder/Wikimedia ...

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 ...

But to most people, the Mercator projection is highly misleading. Tissot's indicatrix, a geometric equation used to show distortion on maps, explains the problems with Mercator. One of the best ...