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 ...

Mercator maps, for example, flatten the round globe into a two-dimensional projection ... world. Luckily, the website The True Size Of has it covered. With a few quick keystrokes, clicks, and swipes, ...

But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century— is the name for the phenomenon in ...