W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Projection mapping is a great way to impress customers and brand your business, but you should look into the legal ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion, it ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it actually is ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the most ...

At first glance, Greenland appears almost as large as the entire continent of Africa on many world maps. In reality, Greenland is about 14 times smaller than Africa.

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IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are being studied as soon as the use of maps is seriously undertaken. At one time ...