A UN-backed push for more accurate world maps highlights how every map involves compromises-and how the way we depict the ...

Gerardus Mercator’s (1512-1594) ‘projection’ was created in 1569, during the Age of Exploration, as European ships travelled in search of new trade routes and wealth. When projecting a globe onto a ...

In Power Lines, journalist Peter Keating brings together nearly 100 political maps, tracing how cartography has shaped ...

What if you don’t have the time or means for film school or high-end gear, and you still have a story you want or need to ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true ...

我们只是习惯了被别人定义的世界。 鼓励各国放弃使用了近500年的墨卡托投影世界地图（蓝色部分）， 改用2018年开发的“平等地球”投影法。 The United Nations General Assemblyvoted on Friday to ...

SU lecturers believe the newly passed Equal Earth projection will be largely inconsequential. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution to adopt a new revised world map, on 4 ...

The transverse Mercator projection was created for European sailors – and it worked for their world, writes Paul Harwood The subject of projections is incredibly complicated and you did a good job of ...

The cartographers who designed the more accurate map of the world to replace the inaccurate Mercator projection have joined ...

The new map is intended to reduce geographic distortions in educational materials, public communications and data visualizations. The U.N. resolution recommends rather than requires use of the new map ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maps. Where would we be without them? They can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else. They can show us global political realities via the drawing of contested country ...