Peters pointed out that the Mercator map has a distortion in the northern hemisphere, making North American and Eurasian countries appear much larger than they actually are.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed the map in the 16th century, that projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on walls and ...

Commentary Comment: Can we blame Mercator for Trump’s Greenland obsession? To simplify his map, the cartographer drew Greenland as immense, when it’s smaller than Algeria. Wednesday, April 2 ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century, this projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on ...

Peters pointed out that the Mercator map has a distortion in the northern hemisphere, making North American and Eurasian countries appear much larger than they actually are.

The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century— is the name for the phenomenon in which land masses on maps appear much larger and distorted the ...

Drawing inspiration from the Robinson projection map of 1963, which gained approval from the National Geographic Society in 1988, the Equal Earth projection offers a fresh solution. This new map ...

The most popular of these is the Mercator projection. Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its own set of problems.