A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost ...

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel projection, often seen in textbooks and incorporated in world news logos.. It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just ...

This World Map Is Weird — But Also the Most Accurate. By. Russell McLendon. Russell McLendon. ... Introduced in 1569, it rendered Earth's parallels and meridians as straight lines, ...

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main content. ... Mercator's projection exponentially increases the separation of parallels as one moves poleward. On the map, ...

When Disaster Strikes, He Creates A 'Crisis Map' That Helps Save Lives : Parallels "You can't protect what you can't map," says Patrick Meier. He pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the ...