Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we perceive size, ... But make no mistake—maps are not entirely accurate, ... Knowing a map’s flaws helps grow our understanding.

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we perceive size, distance, and even where things are really located. Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we ...

Maps are imperfect drawings of our world that distort how we perceive ... If our maps aren’t always perfectly accurate to the world around us, ... NASA creates detailed map of water on the Moon.

The distortion of size and distance is usually prominent on zoomed-out maps that show entire continents or the whole world. Most of the maps we see on a regular basis—precipitation in Ontario or ...