The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...

Maps have been in the news of late, largely because of the forelock-tugging pusillanimity shown by Google and Apple in ...

Because the US rejects reality, it voted against the UN's Correct the Map plan ...

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

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As technology moves at the speed of light, we often hear that "there's an app for that." And while maps have been around for centuries, they've evolved to be more than just about navigation, or ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...