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 ...

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

Google Maps gets 3D view of the world Earth view brings depth to Google's mapping service. It needs a browser plug-in for now some day we'll be cruising in 3D in Google's virtual world.

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

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

The Mercator map gives us a 16th-century world view because it shows Europe larger, and the colonized countries smaller.

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

Those measurements, of course, made for less accurate maps. But since then, our view of the world has sharpened. Here are seven maps that show how far we've come in our understanding of the world.

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