The Mercator projection is good because it preserves ... of having both until Patterson and his team unveiled their Equal Earth map. According to the study, Patterson, Šavrič, and Jenny searched ...

I’m ok! A map projection is an attempt by cartographers (map makers) to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for ...

The only way to accurately represent a round Earth on a flat piece of paper is ... use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world ...