OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s ...

When you think of the world, the Mercator projection is probably the map that comes to mind. It's everywhere: atlases, school walls, even Google Maps. It's also, very, very wrong, and it's been ...

Google has today celebrated the birthday of Gerard Mercator, a 16th century cartographer, with a Doodle on its homepage. The Flemish map-maker is behind one of the most influential depictions of ...

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion. ... The simplest way to explain how a Mercator map is created is to imagine a glass globe with a light inside.