Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. ... Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall.

This double-sided map has smaller distance errors than any single-sided flat map — the previous record-holder being a 2007 map by Gott with Charles Mugnolo, a 2005 Princeton alumnus. In fact, this map ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...

The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

Map makers use map projections to transform the Earth onto a flat surface. One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...