The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017. A ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries. It seems to be set in stone. The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection ...

Researchers have unveiled a new map of the world that shows a truer representation of the continents’ sizes. Cartographers throughout the centuries have come up with all sorts of ways to project Earth ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT’S been revealed that the world map we’ve used for centuries doesn’t actually ...

Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in ...

New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...