Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

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 ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

The most widely used map in the U.S. today is the Mercator projection map. Mercator maps often appear in businesses, in libraries and in classrooms where geography is taught. This popularity is ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Mercator map, created ...

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 ...

All Gene Keyes ever wanted was a perfect map. It would have all the features in proportion, measured and accurate down to the tightest possible measurement. It would be a map he could look at for ...

Image Credit: Gene Keyes Winner of the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2013 map contest, by Nicole Santucci and Woodcut Maps. (Buckminster Fuller Institute) Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Institute ...