Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

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The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

Press Play with Madeleine Brand Why Africa – and some cartographers – want to overhaul the world map The colonial-era Mercator map distorts continental size, making Africa look smaller than it is. The ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — 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 ...

According to Gaza’s health ministry, at least 62,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, with thousands more injured or reported missing. On the Mercator projection, one of the world's ...