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 started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more ...

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

Jack Swab and Derek AldermanThe 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 campaign ...

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

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.

In the first GIS programs, virtual space was synonymous with cartographic space. Spatial computing meant using maps to organize large amounts of data in a visually intuitive manner.

Concern for the impact of maps as part of development education, for adults as well as children, appears to have been stimulated by the use of the world map known as the Peters projection. Since the ...