Northrop F-89 ScorpionThe American fear that "Soviet bombers will cross the Arctic Ocean to drop atomic bombs." I touched on ...

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

From Mercator to Equal Earth, a debate over how map projections shape our understanding of size, power and geography ...

The first full weekend of the season is nearly over, and Sports Illustrated has updated its projections for every postseason game. Week 1 is (almost) in the books and, thanks to our first look at ...

Despite being developed for navigation, the Mercator projection has remained common in educational materials, media, digital mapping, and other forms of geographic representation. Its continued use ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and wrong.

原文档的开篇给出了一句话定义： Azimuthal projections project the sphere directly onto a plane. （方位投影将球面直接投影到一个平面上。） 与圆柱投影（先投到圆柱再展开）和圆锥投影（先投到圆锥再 ...

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution by a majority vote to encourage the use of the Equal Earth projection in ...

The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is. By John Yoon The United Nations General Assembly on ...

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