The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations more accurately, charitable organizations ...

The color images include the Robinson projection, Mercator projection ... They are expected to provide better base maps to scientists and engineers around the world to facilitate research and planning ...

A new projection by the World Bank on poverty should set off alarm bells in the corridors of power in Nigeria. The World Bank has projected that poverty in Nigeria will rise by 3.6 percentage ...

This is especially obvious for maps that use certain projections ... world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas about how to get from one place to another, says geographer Anthony Robinson ...

Forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres) which is approximately 30% of the world's land surface. FAO estimates that around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world ... likely to see the Robinson Projection or the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you ...

and Jenny searched for alternatives to the equal-area world map projections currently available but “could not find any that met all of our aesthetic criteria” so they decided to create their own.

In the 80's he claims to have had a spiritual awakening that helped him create very detailed maps of future world, all stemming from a cataclysmic pole shift. The result, while not based on any ...

“It put us on the world map – when I say I’m mayor of Millau, it doesn’t matter where I am in the world, everyone knows Millau, thanks to the viaduct,” she adds. “The architectural and ...

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size (2.4m x 2.4m ...