Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

As a result, Mercator’s map becomes useless at high latitudes due to the excessive distortion. But take a look at an Ordnance Survey of Ireland map: it is a Transverse Mercator Projection, based ...

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1977), pp. 1-14 (14 pages) The Universal Transverse Mercator ("UTM") grid system is a locational device similar to latitude and ...