When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the most ...

The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an accurate representation of the state's vastness. A photo shared to Facebook on Oct. 11, 2024, claimed to ...

How do you flatten a sphere? For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work ...

There is an episode in The West Wing television series in which White House press spokesperson CJ Craig meets a delegation of cartographers, who explain that the standard world map — a Mercator ...

The classic square Mercator map of the world as seen in Google Maps. Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other ...