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Metrocosm: Your World Map Is Hiding Something

For Students 6th - 8th
The Mercator projection is the map everyone is most familiar with, however, this map gives a distorted view of our world. Find out why and compare other map projections. Have fun clicking on the maps and changing the projections to see...
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University of Connecticut: The Geographer's Craft: Map Projection Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
An advanced overview of map projections with illustrative graphics. Created by Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin in 1995.
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Etc: Comparative Projections of Asia, 1800 1899

For Students 9th - 10th
A map using comparative map projections of Asia, as part of a hemisphere and on a Mercator's projection, to illustrate European misconceptions of land claims during territorial colonialism. In the 19th century, European powers were...
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The True Size

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to illustrate the spatial concepts of maps, this program provides the ability to select countries or continents and move them over others to better visualize the sizes of each of them.
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Principal Railway and Steamship Routes, Central Europe and Mediterranean, 1910

For Students 9th - 10th
Map shows principal railways and steamship routes throughout Central Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in 1910. This map also shows major cities and rivers, and uses the Mercator's Projection.