Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

W hen you look at a map, Greenland looks pretty astonishingly big, taking up almost as much map space as the whole continent ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

Alastair Bonnett has an unusual pastime for an expert in mapping: he likes to get lost. A geographer at Newcastle University, UK, Bonnett sees this as a necessary corrective for a society dependent on ...