The resulting Equal Earth map has a neat and familiar look – but, eagle-eyed will notice some differences from the standard projections. Africa, for example, appears much larger than you may be ...

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 ...

Projection mapping is pretty magical; done well, it’s absolutely miraculous when the facade of a building starts popping out abstract geometric objects, or crumbles in front of our very eyes.

THE subject of map projections is one in which the English language is strangely deficient, a deficiency the more apparent when contrasted with the wealth of Continental literature on the subject ...

News Published: 22 October 1932 The ‘Butterfly’ Map Projection J. E. COLECLOUGH Nature 130, 635 (1932) Cite this article ...