His Mercator projection map, invented in 1569, was the primary map that navigators used for years. ... And the name he chose for his massive collection of maps — "Atlas" — is widely used.

Drew Roos's Mercator Extreme shows how wonderful and how nuts its distortions can get. — Read the rest The post Mercator Extreme explores map projection's wildest distortions appeared first on ...

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 ...

The traditional world map, known as the Mercator projection, seriously messes up the size of countries. by German Lopez. Aug 17, 2016, 2:40 PM UTC. RealLifeLore.

Mercator’s map was so useful to sailors that its popularity eventually caught on with landlubbers. Today, it’s still the most often used map projection in the world.

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality. advertisement.

The True Size map points out that Mercator projections suggest Greenland is roughly the same size size as Africa. The mind-blowing reality is that the continent is 14.5 times bigger than Greenland.

Academics say the Mercator map is so far off because it was created for European seafarers whose main concern was navigating between the Old World and the New. In emphasizing those latitudes, land ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

Look at any map pinned to a classroom wall, and you’ll notice that Greenland seems particularly large. It’s true that the landmass isn’t exactly small, but its true size is nowhere near that ...