The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...

Areas near the poles are greatly exaggerated in size compared to areas near the equator. Mercator projection stretches the map vertically to maintain straight longitude and latitude lines, and ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

The answer is that flights are taking roughly straight paths to their destinations, but it doesn't look like that when you represent their path on a two-dimensional map.. Representing a 3D world ...

With this map, it’s as if some medieval mapmaker flew to the heavens and sketched what he saw — though in reality, he could never have traveled higher than a church tower. The person who made this ...

Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to ... but the further you move from the equator, ... straight lines that don't follow one line of latitude or longitude on a globe do not ...

A painted line on the footpath marks latitude 0° 0’ 0” and it’s a popular spot for tourists to pose with one foot in either hemisphere. But it’s in the wrong spot.