The UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to drop 500 year old Mercator world maps on September 4 2026. The UN assembly urged ...
While not doing away with Mercator, the UN vote to endorse the Equal Earth projectionaims to raise awareness of continents’ ...
Africa Bigger on world maps: Titled "Correct the Map", the resolution was passed with 164 countries voting in favour. The ...
UN General Assembly votes for equal-area projections, encouraging accurate landmass representation in education and mapping.
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Togo has announced plans to change its school geography materials by the end of the year after the United Nations General ...
The challenge is not whether we can draw a different map, the challenge is whether, having seen the distortion, we are ...
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United Nations Backs New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Size
The United Nations has endorsed the 'Equal Earth' map projection to replace the traditional Mercator map, which distorts the ...
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, ...
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