The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of ...

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

However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe ... of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts ...