Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the ...

Instant Street View brings you an in-the-street close-up look at locations all over the globe. It uses Google Maps' technology to not only show you where the location is on a map but also what it ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Learn how to use the new globe view in Apple Maps on MacOS Monterey, including how to change the map type and see detailed location information cards.

In iOS 15, Apple has enhanced the Maps app to include a new globe view that allows you to spin the world around and zoom into different regions on ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat ...

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, ‘radically different’ way to see the world By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications on Feb. 15, 2021, 2:13 p.m.

Google Maps satellite images cover 98 percent of the world's population It has photographed 10 million miles of Street View imagery.

No flat map of our round world can be perfect, of course. First you need to peel off Earth’s skin, then pin it down. This mathematical taxidermy introduces distortions.

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their true proportions, ...