A Google research team has been working on eliminating the face-stretching distortion you get from wide angle lenses, without the ugly bending of perspective lines you get by applying regular ...

Given how popular the Mercator projection is ... an interactive graphic that really puts the distortion caused by the Mercator map into perspective. The tool, dubbed "The True Size" allows ...

A new way to unpeel and flatten out the Earth’s skin without distorting it – dubbed myriahedral projection – provides a new perspective ... a way that minimises distortion, and keeps the ...

A world map, for instance, relies on some form of projection that transfers — with inevitable distortion — the unbounded surface of the globe to the bounded page. Mark Newman has taken this ...

Now, for the first time, thousands of children in schools in the United States will use a very different map, the Gall-Peters projection ... at the expense of distortion that increases the ...