Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world.Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world ...

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

The result is that Europe (although also Africa) is in the centre of the conventional world map – a rather colonial perspective. Pacific-centred map. DEMIS Mapserver/Wikimedia ...

KS3; Atlas skills UK, Europe and world maps. Geographers use tools such as longitude, latitude and Mercator projections to create two-dimensional atlases of our three-dimensional planet.

Maps of world 'completely misleading' as true size of Europe, China and Africa revealed World maps are showing country sizes to be geographically inaccurate depending on their placement near the ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...