The different cartographic projections and their interpretations. África del norte. Mapa de Gabriel de Vallseca, realizado em 1439. Image via Wikicommons, under public domain ...

See PIA07775 for a separate global mosaic of Phoebe in Equidistant projection, derived from 27 narrow-angle camera images. A Mercator projection is a map that preserves directions on a body, but ...

Like symphonies, map projections are named after their makers. Gerardus Mercator was an engraver and globe-maker in 1500s Flanders. Until he came along, most cartographers were using Ptolemy’s ...

A CARTOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY.; Map with Equidistant Polar Projection, Supposed to Antedate Mcreator's Chart, Found. Share full article. LONDON TIMES -- NEW YORK TIMES Special Cablegram.

The maps we consult are like this thanks to the Mercator projection, a type of cartographic projection created by Gerardus Mercator, an expert in mathematics, astronomy, and geography born in 1534.

From the famously misleading Mercator projection to lesser-known alternatives like the Gall-Peters or Winkel Tripel projections, ... map.This video is more than just a cartographic correction,it ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We take ...

Palestine to Africa: How maps lie — and some tell the truth. Conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, the Indian Ocean and other areas also spill over into the realm of cartography.

A projection named after geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight and parallel; that still distorts the polar regions, but somewhat less.