On the Ongoing Ubiquity of the Mercator Projection

As anyone who has ever looked at a globe can tell you, Greenland is not as big as Africa, even though the Mercator projection would lead you to believe it is. The amount to which the Mercator…

Amanda Stanko on LinkedIn: Beyond Web Mercator: Building basemaps in different projections

Choosing the Right Map Projection - Learning - Source: An OpenNews project

Twelve maps that reflect their times: far away is close at hand

Choosing the Right Map Projection - Learning - Source: An OpenNews project

Transverse Mercator—ArcMap

This interactive map shows how 'wrong' other maps are - The Washington Post

Why Are All Maps Inaccurate?. Understanding map projections, and why…, by Jake Teo, Dec, 2023

Gall-Peters vs. Winkel vs. Mercator. Details in comments [OC] [1359x862] : r/MapPorn

After Seeing This Map With The Actual Size Of Every Country, You'll Never Look At The World The Same

Kioneki 2.0 on X: Mercator projection is the term for the ubiquitous rectangularly rendered maps found in almost every American classroom. It's most egregious flaw, critics note, it distorts the world by

Maps: About Mercator projection - Qlik Community - 1472064

Are We There Yet? The Plane in the Map

Squeezing countries onto 2D maps: The true size of Africa