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 ...
That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...
Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research arm, announced the release of AlphaEarth Foundations on Wednesday, a new AI model that can process terabytes of daily satellite data ...
Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...
There are growing calls from African nations for the international community to adopt maps that accurately reflect the true ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.
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