The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map.

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

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GIS is a technology built on making systems better. Building a better world is an attainable goal with GIS, which enables us to map where we are and where we want to be.

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.

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

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.

In his new book, A History of the World in 12 Maps, Brotton masterfully catalogs the maps that tell us most about pivotal periods in human history.

An analysis of four prominent maps, including the one Google, Apple, and Bing use--but shouldn't.

Where to See Some of the World’s Oldest and Most Interesting Maps Chart humanity’s course through history with these antique navigational tools ...

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, ‘radically different’ way to see the world By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications on Feb. 15, 2021, 2:13 p.m.