Map with Equidistant Polar Projection, Supposed to Antedate Mcreator's Chart, Found. Share full article. LONDON TIMES -- NEW YORK TIMES Special Cablegram. July 18, 1902; ...

A Mercator projection is a map that preserves directions on a body, but distorts sizes, especially near the poles. Equidistant projections preserve distances on a body, with some distortion of ...

By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881.

THE first of the new series of technical publications issued by the Royal Geographical Society is an exhaustive investigation of map projections based upon Airy's idea of making the mean square ...