The most common map is the Mercator projection map, which was created by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, according to IFLScience. Lars H. Rohwedder/Wikimedia ...

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 ...

The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century— is the name for the phenomenon in which land masses on maps appear much larger and distorted the ...

Alongside his Geography, Ptolemy’s maps and geographical descriptions ... for all the wrong reasons. His last name evokes the infamous Mercator projection, which depicts the world in a distorted ...