A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Cartography consists of the flat, simplified and conventional geometric representation of the earth's surface, presented in the form of maps, charts or blueprints. Because it is a two-dimensional ...

The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gall%E2%80 ...

Check the nearest map. Does Greenland look like it’s close in size to the entire continent of Africa? Does Antarctica seem to sprawl enormously across the south of the world? Does Alaska look as big ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The Boston School District has decided to replace the maps in its schools with those using the Peters projection, and touted it as the only true map projection. This is utter nonsense! No projection ...

THE first of the new series of technical publications issued by the Royal Geographical Society is an exhaustive investigation of map projections based upon Airy's ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it actually is ...

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 ...