The African Union wants to toss out the Mercator projection, calling it “the world’s longest misinformation campaign.” ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current ...

The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

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

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The Equal Earth map aims to resolve many of the issues with maps, maintaining the relative sizes of the continents without sacrificing a ‘visually pleasing and balanced’ presentation.

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

Google Maps now offers a refreshing new angle of planet Earth as a globe but not every user may be happy with the scientifically accurate change.

Geographically and historically correct locations Greatest Earth Map is a highly satisfying alternative to Civilization 6’s built-in Earth map, which is only playable at a much smaller size.