Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so. Why? Because the ...

For centuries, the Mercator projection has been one of the most recognizable representations of the world. Developed in 1569 during the height of maritime exploration, it was engineered with a ...

Our world does not look like the map on the wall of the classrooms you grew up in.In order to flatten the spherical globe onto a flat map, cartographers had to make adjustments to the sizes of the ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We ...

Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world, one laminated 24-by-36-inch sheet of paper at a time. Beginning last Thursday, Boston Public Schools administrators have ...

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