Drew Roos's Mercator Extreme shows how wonderful and how nuts its distortions can get. Above is a Mercator projection of the world's surface poled to Pittsburgh, PA. The map you see is the ...

However, spherical distortion severely limits the effectiveness of vanilla convolutions. To push the envelope of accuracy, recent approaches attempt to utilize Tangent projection (TP ... of accurate ...

Despite Canada’s vulnerable position, any tariffs will eventually fail, says the author, for these reasons: 1. Tariffs are ...

How to establish an one-to-one mapping relationship between the spatial objects in the hand-drawn sketch and in the vector map is the key to the realization ... Furthermore, because of people’s ...

But they went on to explore how the impression of Greenland as so very big is the result of a distortion in the so-called Mercator projection — the most widely used version of the world map — which ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill Mcgurn, and Kyle Peterson. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/Bill Clark/Zuma Press/J. Scott Applewhite ...

The presidency said in a statement that Ramaphosa and Musk spoke on Monday “on issues of misinformation and distortions” about South Africa. “In the process, the president reiterated South ...

Another important contribution is the end-to-end full projector compensation system, which addresses both geometric and photometric distortions in projection mapping. This system employs a novel ...

NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...