Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. While 3D globes are the most accurate way of representing the layout of the Earth’s surface, it’s much more ...

This paragraph explains why the Mercator projection is still a good map tool for most maritime navigation companies. The same factor that has aided sailors for hundreds of years has created a ...

Various such as Mercator 's projectionProjection methodYou can see how much deformed it is compared with the actual terrain while comparing 2D maps using 3D globe with "Visualizing map distortion"is.

MR. STEERS's useful little book on map projections, the third edition of which has recently been issued, is written for those students of geography who have only the most elementary knowledge of ...