A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

Compare Greenland and South America on a world map.On a Mercator projection map, the large northern island appears wider than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

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 campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The new map is intended to reduce geographic distortions in educational materials, public communications and data visualizations. The U.N. resolution recommends rather than requires use of the new map ...

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to phase out Mercator projections and adopt Equal Earth projections, a change meant to better represent geographic size on maps. The vote came on Sept. 4, ...

The current commonly used projection, called the Mercator Projection, greatly exaggerates land towards the north and south poles, which makes Africa look much smaller. In the Mercator projection, ...

The cartographers who designed the more accurate map of the world to replace the inaccurate Mercator projection have joined ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, ...