A collaboration of three cartographers has developed a new representation of the world map, which is aesthetically pleasing and depicts the true sizes of all continents without distorting their shapes ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection ...

Image Credit: Gene Keyes Winner of the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2013 map contest, by Nicole Santucci and Woodcut Maps. (Buckminster Fuller Institute) Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Institute ...

Schools across the city have this week introduced a new standard map — and it is sending them into a spin. Authorities hope the introduction of the Gall-Peters projection, replacing the popular ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world—but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular ...