But a new map called ... Thus the AuthaGraphic world map provides an advanced precise perspective of our planet." AuthaGraph The current standard for world maps, the Mercator projection, was ...

Students attending Boston public schools will get a more accurate depiction of the world after the school district rolled out a new standard ... map from the traditional map, which has used ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a representation that despite its apparent distortions has been around more than 400 years.

Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map — and it ... replacing the popular Mercator Projection, will give them a more accurate view of the world.

The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a ...

In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator devised an elegant solution that became the standard world map for the next five centuries. But his method resulted in massive distortions of ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a map type dating back to 1569, introduced by Geradus Mercator. It's a cylindrical projection derived mathematically, with horizontal parallel straight ...

By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve ... said it also introduced a new weakness. You can see only half of the planet at once, unlike the Winkel Tripel and Mercator.

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...