The Equal Earth projection was developed after Boston Public Schools said it was updating the maps it used in its classrooms.

The Flemish map-maker is behind one of the most influential depictions of the globe ever created. His 1569 Mercator projection became the standard map projection for nautical purposes.

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 ...

The new Equal Earth map projection gives an accurate representation of the continents without sacrificing appearances.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

Maps are flat representations of our spherical planet. I cut open a plastic globe to understand just what it takes to turn a sphere into something flat: My struggle to make a flat map out of the ...

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...