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Mercator Extreme explores map projection's wildest distortions
The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of ...
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This New World Map Shows Just How Inaccurate Every Map You’ve Ever Seen Is
The most common map is the Mercator projection map, which was created by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, according to IFLScience. Lars H. Rohwedder/Wikimedia ...
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Most popular map of the world is totally misleading
Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...