Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

said any flat map of a globe was “always involves some compromise”. “With the Mercator projection, it gained popularity because it was fairly simple to calculate and yes, you could navigate ...