In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small) countries really are when you strip away map projection bias and look at actual land area.

In Coventry, Pauline has a curious astrological artefact in need of some repair. It is a celestial projector, once owned by ...

The Kansas City Chiefs are looking to bounce back next season and win another Super Bowl. But one 2025 season win projection is saying otherwise.

A CARTOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY.; Map with Equidistant Polar Projection, Supposed to Antedate Mcreator's Chart, Found. - The New York Times SKIP ADVERTISEMENT ...

“If you want to go after something, you make it look big,” Weichelt said. “This has been a common tactic in political cartography for a long time, using the right projection to make your ...

Yet another projection type is polar or azimuthal (after a mathematical term rather than a person). It distorts little and comes closest to how Earth looks as seen from space, which is one reason why ...

To the extent that Trump’s love for maps plays a role, it’s hardly the first time that the whims of cartography have shaped the worldviews of leaders and thus the arc of history. The ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

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

His world view, it turns out, comes directly from Gerardus Mercator, whose cartographic projection on the surface of his landmark map exaggerates the poles – just the right metaphor for this ...