New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...

For centuries, the Mercator map has shown the African continent to be smaller than it is. Now the African Union is calling ...

Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other ...

There is an episode in The West Wing television series in which White House press spokesperson CJ Craig meets a delegation of cartographers, who explain that the standard world map — a Mercator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schools in Boston have discarded the widely used but distorted map of the world in a bid to give children a more accurate ...

For centuries, the Mercator projection has been one of the most recognizable representations of the world. Developed in 1569 during the height of maritime exploration, it was engineered with a ...

African advocacy organizations have initiated a paradigm shift by initiating a resulting campaign to replace the twisted Mercator map that distorts the African continent by 14 times to be replaced by ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

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