The flat map, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 is still used today by Google Maps. This map from circa 1798 was charted according to the Mercator’s projection. Photo ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, ... (8,515,767 sq km) to the entire continent of Europe, ...

Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection. Every map projection introduces distortion, and each has its ...

The traditional world map, known as the Mercator projection, seriously messes up the size of countries. ... Alaska, and even all of Europe — appear to be way larger than they are in reality.

On the Mercator projection Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland is 0.8 million sq. miles and Africa is 11.6 million sq. miles, nearly 14 and a half times ...

The reason the Mercator projection is distorted is because it maps the globe onto a cylinder. Areas near the poles are greatly exaggerated in size compared to areas near the equator.

Peters’s position was that the Mercator Projection—a cylindrical projection first developed in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator—was not only inaccurate, but downright racist.

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.

A common template used for world maps today is called the Mercator projection, created by European cartographer Geert de Kremer in 1569. The projection has been criticised for being widely ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a type of map dating back to 1569, introduced by Geradus Mercator.. Described as a cylindrical projection which is derived mathematically, the horizontal ...