Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

This activity illustrates how reducing distortion in global projections drastically affects people’s perspective of the world. In many cases, publications create multiple global map representations to ...