Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World maps distort size and shape by design. Learn why projections matter and how they shape global understanding. (CREDIT: ...

Electric vehicles were sold to the public as an imminent takeover, a rapid flip from gasoline to plugs that would dominate roads within a decade. Instead, the latest global projections point to a ...

To manage this issue, a cartographer uses mathematical projection systems to create a flat map of the world. All different types of projections convert points from a sphere onto a plane. According to ...