Deep beneath our feet, is there another world waiting to be discovered? The captivating concept of a Hollow Earth suggests our planet isn’t a solid…
Different ways to “cut” or “center” a world map, essentially choosing where the map’s centered meridian sits. Changing that cut line completely changes how continents…
Navigating the Labyrinth: A Deep Dive into the London Underground Map The London Underground, affectionately known as the “Tube,” is more than just a public…
Cartography is the art and science of portraying a three-dimensional planet on two-dimensional surfaces, maps. Many projections have been developed to solve the challenges of…
Flat Earth Maps History: Cartographic Belief Beyond the Globe While mainstream cartography has long embraced a spherical Earth, there exists a fascinating and persistent countertradition:…
Goode’s 1908 speech at the American Association of Geographers on the Evil Mercator In 1908, J. Paul Goode delivered a pivotal speech at the American…
Goode’s Homolosine Projection is a composite, equal-area map projection that minimizes distortions for global maps. The projection is named after John Paul Goode, an American…
One of the key challenges in cartography is representing the three-dimensional surface of the Earth on a two-dimensional plane. Since the Earth is spherical (or…
Ptolemy’s 1st projection, attributed to the Greco-Roman geographer Claudius Ptolemy, is a simple cylindrical map projection with straight, equally spaced meridians and non-equally spaced parallels.…
The Mercator projection was created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It is one of the most well-known map projections in history. Its design…