Rebalancing Global Cartographic Representation and Promoting Equitable Representation of the World’s Regions, Particularly ...
As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and ...
Every flat map sacrifices some geographical properties. Equal Earth preserves relative land area, while Mercator's ...
There are many methods of portraying a three-dimensional shape on a two-dimensional surface, and each comes with tradeoffs ...
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage alternatives to the centuries-old Mercator projection, which ...
General Assembly has approved a resolution encouraging the world to move away from the centuries-old Mercator map projection.
The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to drop 500 year old Mercator world maps on September 4 2026. The UN assembly urged ...
As part of a movement led by the African Union, Paris announced on Friday that it will abandon the Mercator projection to better reflect the physical reality of the planet. France will now appear ...
India backs the UN resolution supporting the Equal Earth map but clarifies that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh must be shown ...