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.

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 ...

The map that shows that many countries - including Russia,Canada and Greenland - are not nearly as big as we think. The world map distortion is the result of the Mercator projection, the map most ...

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.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Colvocoresses, no mapping slouch, came up with a theoretical solution in 1973, which he called the Space-Oblique Mercator projection. ... seamless map with minimal distortion.

The Mercator map was created in 1569 to make colonial trade routes easier to navigate. ... For BPS officials, that distortion no longer holds up in 21st-century Boston.

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 ...