A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

The National Weather Service’s projection of Hurricane Matthew’s path along the east coast shows the storm traveling up to about South Carolina before turning northeast. The projection, which was ...

Cartography consists of the flat, simplified and conventional geometric representation of the earth's surface, presented in the form of maps, charts or blueprints. Because it is a two-dimensional ...

The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gall%E2%80 ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The Boston School District has decided to replace the maps in its schools with those using the Peters projection, and touted it as the only true map projection. This is utter nonsense! No projection ...