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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...