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

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

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

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

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

Google Maps' Google Street View is the tool you've been searching for. It lets you search for a location anywhere in the world and then place yourself there physically by toggling on an ...

Earth view brings depth to Google's mapping service. It needs a browser plug-in for now some day we'll be cruising in 3D in Google's virtual world.

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view ...

For years, users of Google Maps have had numerous tools to navigate the planet: Street View, 3D representations, and more. Now Google is adding Immersive View, combining real-world imagery and ...

The best maps “take the complexity of the world and simplify it into some sort of graphic that will either help you understand it or motivate you to do something differently,” he said. An ...