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.

Drew Roos's Mercator Extreme shows how wonderful and how nuts its distortions can get. — Read the rest The post Mercator Extreme explores map projection's wildest distortions appeared first on ...

The flat map, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 is still used today by Google Maps. This map from circa 1798 was charted according to the Mercator’s projection.

In 1569, the great cartographer, Gerardus Mercator, created a revolutionary new map based on a cylindrical projection. The new map was well-suited to nautical navigation since every line on the ...

Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

The Peters Projection map is said to present a "more culturally proficient view of the world" than conventional Mercator projection map, and will be offered to second, seventh and eleventh grade ...

Planisphere made by Rumold Mercator in 1587. Rumold was the son of Gerardus Mercator, who invented the Mercator projection. Wikimedia Commons "One of the most common criticisms of the Mercator map ...

The Gauss–Krüger projection was created by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger in 1822. Date of map: February 4, 2018 ...