MAPS commonly used in schools rely heavily ... country shapes and areas towards both poles, in common with all cylindrical projections. Near the equator the inaccuracies are small and the true ...

The 16th-century cylindrical projection ... area. This approach displays the size of countries accurately but still distorts their shapes, and has failed to become widely adopted (see our map ...

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 projection, in which you place the globe ...

Peters’s position was that the Mercator Projection—a cylindrical projection ... the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a type of map dating back to 1569, introduced by Geradus Mercator. Described as a cylindrical projection which is derived mathematically, the horizontal ...

Map projections are needed because the Earth - being a sphere - cannot be reproduced as a 2D rectangular image without some form of distortion. Popular maps use a cylindrical projection.

The map you're familiar with, that pretty much everyone has a copy of somewhere, is called the Mercator Projection ... but if you remove the cylindrical distortion, you find it's not actually ...