The Mercator map was intended as a navigational tool for ... the map shows the world—including a well-developed picture of North and South America. While text on the map indicates it was drawn ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

Greenland is particularly exaggerated on a Mercator map and appears to be larger than ... In those ways, this strange and unnecessary crisis between America and Greenland is a reminder that ...

In 1569, Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator drew such a world map, using what has become known ... we welcome you into the United States of America,” Trump said Tuesday during his address ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...