The Mercator projection is good because it preserves ... having both until Patterson and his team unveiled their Equal Earth map. According to the study, Patterson, Šavrič, and Jenny searched ...

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in ... This is due to the Mercator ...

Greenland is particularly exaggerated on a Mercator map and appears to be larger than ... It distorts little and comes closest to how Earth looks as seen from space, which is one reason why ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...