US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion. Expert explains why maps of Britain ... to be about the same size as the 48 mainland US states as shown on the Mercator map.

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 ...

With a Mercator projection, as you move away from the equator, land masses appear increasingly larger as you approach the poles. That distortion is present on these maps. Ad Feedback ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s ...

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.

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.

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 ...

With a Mercator projection, as you move away from the equator, land masses appear increasingly larger as you approach the poles. That distortion is present on these maps. Ad Feedback ...

With a Mercator projection, as you move away from the equator, land masses appear increasingly larger as you approach the poles. That distortion is present on these maps. Ad Feedback ...