Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most dramatic. Take this circle, for example. As redditor valeriepieris points out in a map projection that depicts the world flatly (a Winkel Tripel projection), ...
How distorting are map projections? Here’s what four commonly used systems of projection do to a human head. From the 1921 publication Elements in Map Projection comes this striking demonstration of ...
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 ...
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