The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

“Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” Gott added. “To see all of the globe, you have to rotate it; to see all of our new map, you simply have to flip it over.” ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard Mercator map in favour of on ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map.

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

The "flat and non-rotating" terminology found in NASA papers is a common technique in aerospace engineering to generalize mathematic equations.

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map.

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

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map.