When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside ... in Europe, north on top became (and largely remained) a thing. "The 'magnetic north ...

North wasn’t always “up” on world maps. North doesn't always mean "up" when it comes to geophysics. Scientists have known for ...

resulting in a new map of the World Magnetic Model (WMM) every five years. However, the magnetic north pole is moving faster than normal resulting in a new out of cycle release for the WMM.

Magnetic north has never sat still. In the last hundred years or so, the direction in which our compasses steadfastly point has lumbered ever northward, driven by Earth's churning liquid outer ...

Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters ... But on the azimuthal polar projection from the north, the southern hemisphere has been ...

Just last year, Boston Public Schools announced they’d be switching to the Gall-Peters projection of the entire world ... their new map, including an equatorial aspect and north-up orientation.

“And that means that it is impossible to accurately depict her surface on a two-dimensional map.” Due to how the Mercator projection works, the more north ... the world with a daily explainer ...

The earliest known map dates back to 600 BC, etched onto clay tablets, while the first world map was ... often exaggerating the north-south divide. The challenge of map projection lies in ...

which should in the the north, is placed dead center on the world map. Boston, which is the first city in the nation to phase out Mercator Projection maps, introduced the Gall-Peters Projection ...

Mercator Projection (Credit: Daniel R. Strebe/Wikimedia Commons) In reality though, Africa is larger than all of North America ... equation to quantify the degree of distortion that a world map ...

When you look at a map of the world ... which he named after the giant holding the world on his shoulders in Greek mythology. In the Mercator projection, North America looks at least as big ...