If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

As a result, shapes of world maps have typically been diverse ... latitude areas are also more elongated than those in the Robinson projection, the authors note, and areas along the poles seem ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection ... creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the ...

"Every world map is distorted ... and 1980s is the Gall-Peters projection, which is equal-area, but quite ugly," Edney said. "My academic grandfather, Arthur Robinson, said it made the continents ...

But while the Robinson map did not attempt to show ... "We searched for alternative equal-area map projections for world maps, but could not find any that met all our aesthetic criteria," the ...

The world map you are probably familiar with is called ... but there are issues with all of them. For instance, the Robinson projection (final image), with its curved sides, is much better than ...

The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium ...

When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the ...

The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection ... creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the ...