Our maps are all WRONG: Graphic shows just how out of touch the commonly used Mercator map really is. A scientist has created a representation of what the world really looks like ...

Our maps are all WRONG: The first graphic that shows the world as it really is . ... It is very difficult to portray the reality of the spherical world on a flat map; ...

Object Details Author Bayer, Herbert 1900-1985 former owner Lustig, Alvin DSI Author Container Corporation of America Notes "This book is called 'World geo-graphic atlas' because it includes, in ...

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 this projection is what ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before.

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African ...