The Mercator projection is considered one of the most important and influential world map projections still used today. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) In actuality, Africa is much bigger than ...
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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!
Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...
Editor’s Note: This article gives you all the information you need to get started with projection mapping applications. Projection mapping is hot. The market size is estimated at over 5.5 billion USD ...
Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape. Because the Earth is round, any ...
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