They aren't just taking the scenic route.The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It's a cylindrical map ...

As he points out, the Mercator projection, a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, drastically exaggerates areas far from the equator.

Image credits: amazingmap The aforementioned Mercator projection (a cylindrical map projection) was presented in 1569 by the Flemish geographer and cartographer, Gerardus Mercator. As Dr. Rouse ...

This line is perfectly straight, people.The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It's a cylindrical map ...

The Economist has their own version of the map. They decided to rework Krause's map using Gall's Stereographic Cylindrical Projection (1855). It is noted that this is constituted by two standard ...

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map ...

The flat world map we normally see is made by the Mercator projection, which is a cylindrical map projection developed by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. While the linear scale is equal in ...

O. M. Miller, Notes on Cylindrical World Map Projections, Geographical Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul., 1942), pp. 424-430 ...