Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking demonstration of ...

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, was originally ...

MR. STEERS's useful little book on map projections, the third edition of which has recently been issued, is written for those students of geography who have only the most elementary knowledge of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

Teaching Geography is a journal published by the Geographical Association dedicated to geography teaching in the 11–19 age range aimed at students (Undergraduate, PGCE, Masters, Post graduate), ...

The Mercator map, created in 1596 to help sailors navigate, is also why so many people think Greenland is larger than China. Now you can better appreciate how two-dimensional maps mess with geography, ...

THIS little book is, in the main, what it professes to be, and is written chiefly for those students of geography who have but little knowledge of mathematics. For that reason the study is cast ...