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

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

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

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

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

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

Our conventions as map readers and makers have converged over time to a north-up default. What happens when that convention ...

Learning how to create a 3D globe with the world map in Illustrator will help with that. This 3D globe with the world may be a stand-alone project or it can be a part of a larger project.