The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

The African Union wants to toss out the Mercator projection, calling it “the world’s longest misinformation campaign.” ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it actually is ...

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

THE first of the new series of technical publications issued by the Royal Geographical Society is an exhaustive investigation of map projections based upon Airy's ...

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

Trygve H. Inda has released a new version of EarthDesk, the world time and mapping tool. EarthDesk replaces your Mac desktop with an animated, real-time rendering of the earth that displays eleven ...

In reality Africa is many, many times larger than Greenland. If this has piqued your interest, here’s an interactive notebook that visualises a bunch of different world map projections. All of them ...

Rex Cammack, chair and associate professor in the Department of Geography and Geology, rolls up a map in the map library in the Durham Science Center at University of Nebraska at Omaha in Omaha on ...