Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall. Generations of children have grown up learning that ...

"Flat maps that improve on the Winkel Tripel," by J ... software package that models the curvature and spatial dimensions of Earth's atmosphere to render atmospheric data into three-dimensional images ...

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are shown to be a lot bigger than they really are in and around ...

Original image has been replaced ... Google Maps has not been the only one struggling with this. Apple Maps is currently still showing a flat view of the world. For what it's worth, even maps ...

Flat map of Jupiter in radio waves with ALMA (top) and visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope (bottom). The eruption in the South Equatorial Belt is visible in both images. Disclaimer ...

Luckily for everyone, Google is solving this problem with the latest update to Google Maps. Google announced Thursday it will begin showing the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "mercator projection ...