Introduction -- Coordinates and reference systems -- 3. Map projections -- 4. Transformations -- 5. Global navigation satellite systems -- 6. Case studies -- Appendix A. Terminology -- Appendix B.

Burns & McDonnell India celebrated GIS Day 2025, highlighting how geospatial technology is evolving from mapping tools to ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is covered ...

The earthly globe is spherical; more precisely, it is an oblate spheroid, like a ball slightly flattened at the poles. More precisely still, it is a triaxial ellipsoid that closely approximates a ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually ...