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 ...

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 ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century, this projection shows ... when in fact it is smaller than Algeria. Nick Danforth, author of a ...