Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

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.

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

Many world maps use the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation. While ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

HD Maps for these territories Here started work building HD maps back in 2013, according to Sanjay Sood, the company's VP for highly automated driving. "The notion of an HD map was created during ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...

A 1602 world map created by the Italian-born Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, which places China at its center, is on display at the Library of Congress.