The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which ...

Because the US rejects reality, it voted against the UN's Correct the Map plan ...

UN votes to approve new world map which will show true size of Africa - Africa-led campaign asks governments, schools and ...

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

How do you represent the world globe on a flat surface? Can it be done without distorting the sizes of countries and continents and the distances between places? What would it take to make an accurate ...

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As technology moves at the speed of light, we often hear that "there's an app for that." And while maps have been around for centuries, they've evolved to be more than just about navigation, or ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...