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Launched nearly fifteen years ago, Google Maps’ online mapping service is getting a major update by finally ditching the ...

THE first of the new series of technical publications issued by the Royal Geographical Society is an exhaustive investigation of map projections based upon Airy's ...

image: This global digital map of Phoebe was created using data taken during the Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of the small moon in June 2004. The mosaic is projected into the Mercator projection ...

Peter Rogerson is a member of the American Association of Geographers. People have long been intrigued by figuring out the center of the places where we live. You’re probably familiar with the concept ...

In classrooms, offices, and libraries across the United States, one world map appears again and again: the Mercator projection. Its familiarity makes it feel authoritative, even though it was never ...

For centuries, the Mercator projection has been one of the most recognizable representations of the world. Developed in 1569 during the height of maritime exploration, it was engineered with a ...