Using the Web Mercator map projection allows us to use rectangular map tiles to dynamically load appropriate levels of detail as the map is zoomed in and out, allowing for a richer and more ...

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Mercator Projections, the type of map Google and many other services use, were made for navigating the ocean, not visualizing the size of landmasses.

THE problem of reducing the sphere to a plane surface has ever been a difficulty. This realisation has led cartographers to adopt the policy of constructing a map for a specific purpose. The most ...

When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a from of navigation. The flat map ...

Scientists have a new way to try to represent our spherical planet as a flat picture. It involves printing the map as a double-sided circle.