The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth's rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints ...

With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That ...

It includes new features, tries to improve balance, and is more suitable for playing on Earth maps, or similar scenarios. It includes its own tileset ("amplio_earth" or "ampliohex_earth"), and a world ...

A SWPC map reveals that the northern ... The charged particles from the CME are funneled toward Earth's polar regions by the planet's magnetic field lines, spiraling along these lines toward ...