Mercator's innovative map employed a cylindrical projection ideal for maritime navigation, given the inherent difficulty of accurately portraying a sphere's surface on a flat plane without some ...

There are a variety of ways of converting this 3D shape into 2D, which are referred to as map projections, but none of them are perfect. “We believe it is the most accurate flat map of Earth yet ...

Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet. I cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something flat: My struggle to make a flat map out of the ...

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African ...