Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled across the wall. Generations of children have grown up learning that this projection is what ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

“Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland’s size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before.

Apple Maps is currently still showing a flat view of the world. For what it's worth, even maps in school do this. Thinking back to my elementary school days, I can clearly remember looking at the ...

Implying the real world is a definable square with known edges and corners creates an impression of confidence — we can define the real world and design for it.” ...

This map, published by South Dakotan Orlando Ferguson in 1893, offers a unique vision of the Earth as a concave field, with a round convex area in the middle. Surrounded by Bible passages arguing ...