Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

His Mercator projection map, invented in 1569, was the primary map that navigators used for years. It's the form that many maps still come in today.

The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It's been widely used for centuries, including today in various forms by Google Maps ...

Mercator’s map was so useful to sailors that its popularity eventually caught on with landlubbers. Today, it’s still the most often used map projection in the world.

The traditional world map, known as the Mercator projection, seriously messes up the size of countries. by German Lopez. Aug 17, 2016, 2:40 PM UTC. RealLifeLore.

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

The OS maps the UK using a modified form of Mercator’s system. The cylinder of paper is wrapped around the Earth from east to west, rather than north to south.

I thought because mercator projections are rectangular, I can just use a simple percentage of lat/lon to calculate the x/y position of points on the map, which is what I'm trying to do.

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...