Rohwedder/Wikimedia CommonsMercator projection map. The Mercator projection is good because it preserves the angles and shapes of the world’s continental landmasses well, but it greatly distorts ...

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 ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times and likely thought it looked perfectly normal. It was originally invented by ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map ... the Mercator Projection. Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century, this ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ... Depending on how you define its political status, it's around the 12th largest nation in the world.

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants ... is especially popular in classrooms: the Mercator Projection. This projection shows meridians as ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...