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

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

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

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

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

How using advanced mapping technology has let one aid organization in Africa see more clearly the scope of the problems it’s trying to fix.