The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...
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 ...
The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...
The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...
Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...
That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...
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Alastair Bonnett has an unusual pastime for an expert in mapping: he likes to get lost. A geographer at Newcastle University, ...
<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.
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