The Mercator, however, makes the North look much larger. Therefore, Peters argued, the Mercator projection shows a euro-centric bias and harms the world's perception of developing countries.

Drew Roos's Mercator Extreme shows how wonderful and how nuts its distortions can get. — Read the rest The post Mercator Extreme explores map projection's wildest distortions appeared first on ...

Today, it’s still the most often used map projection in the world. If you’ve used Google, Bing, Yahoo, OpenStreetMaps, or MapQuest, then you’ve plotted a course using Mercator.

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on maps, making them appear different to reality.

It's tough to represent a three-dimensional world in a two-dimensional map. The most common way of getting around this problem is to use a Mercator projection. This method of map-drawing, invented ...

With a Mercator projection, as you move away from the equator, land masses appear increasingly larger as you approach the poles. That distortion is present on these maps.

Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the ...

The Mercator projection, invented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Among the misconceptions fostered by this representation is a vast overestimation of the size of Europe and Alaska, as well as the ...

Canada also appears larger than it is because of the Mercator projection. Update 1/8/25, 4:41 p.m. ET: This story was updated with comment from Mark Monmonier.

By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881.