World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...

When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular buyers wouldn’t think of: She messaged the manufacturers with a simple, ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

Schools in Boston have discarded the widely used but distorted map of the world in a bid to give children a more accurate depiction of the world. Social studies teachers in the public schools in ...

Visualize the world map. You’re probably imagining the Mercator projection, the standard used across American schools. Unfortunately, that map is wrong: It’s a variation of Gerardus Mercator’s design ...

Students attending Boston public schools will get a more accurate depiction of the world after the school district rolled out a new standard map of the world that show North America and Europe much ...

Boston Public Schools are ditching the traditional world maps many might remember hanging on their classroom walls for something the schools say is more accurate: the Gall-Peters Projection map. The ...

Check the nearest map. Does Greenland look like it’s close in size to the entire continent of Africa? Does Antarctica seem to sprawl enormously across the south of the world? Does Alaska look as big ...

Our world does not look like the map on the wall of the classrooms you grew up in.In order to flatten the spherical globe onto a flat map, cartographers had to make adjustments to the sizes of the ...

Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so. Why? Because the ...

Picture a wall-size world map. What do you see? What you are imagining is most likely not the type of map going into Boston Public Schools Thursday. Social studies teachers in the second, seventh and ...