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 ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is ... cartographers (map makers) to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times and likely thought it looked perfectly normal. It was originally invented by ...