Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem – how to turn the three-dimensional sphere of the Earth into a flat, two-dimensional image. In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape. Because the Earth is round, any ...

For those who only know the name Mercator through the controversial map projection that bears his name, historian Andrew Taylor has done a great service. In “The World of Gerard Mercator,” Taylor has ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...