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The UN General Assembly has just endorsed a new position on world maps that aims to represent the relative size of the world's land masses more accurately, with the difference bein...
Yesterday the UN General Assembly voted to replace its traditional world maps - based on Mercator - with a map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa - based on the 2018...
The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.
The Equal Earth projection, intended to more accurately depict the actual proportions of Africa and other regions of the world, was proposed as an alternative to the Mercator proje...
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to promote the use of world map projections that more accurately represent the relative size of continents. The resolution was present...
The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true size relative to one another, unlike the centuries-old Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is.
Since the UN General Assembly voted to promote equal-area projections such as Equal Earth as an alternative to the familiar Mercator projection, there have been a number of interes...
UN has backed a new world map designed to show the relative size of continents more accurately, particularly correcting the way Africa is visually diminished on the traditional Mer...
Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map. What is particularly interesting about this new map is that, unlike traditional to...
Tokyo claims the map uses the same color for the islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories, as it does for Russian territory.
The U.N. General Assembly has endorsed the Equal Earth projection, a new map that more accurately depicts the size of Africa. Critics of the old map said that it made northern coun...
The new map — known as the Equal Earth cartographic projection — improves "the accuracy of the cartographic representation of the world," the resolution said.
164 countries back resolution, US votes against Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Dike Nwamaeze in Lagos The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the weekend adopted a resolution p...
Mapping a sphere onto a flat plane is mathematically impossible. But a better world map than the Mercator projection is
The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution promoting world maps that show continents at their actual relative size. The move supports the Equal Earth projection and challenges...
Bert Spaan, with help from Jules Schoonman, made an elevation map for the…Tags: Bert Spaan, elevation, world
Equal Earth projection passes with 164 votes as Washington slams resolution
The United Nations voted to support the Equal Area map projection, which more…Tags: cartography, Guardian, Japan, world
When OpenStreetMap put a slippy map on its front page on its front page in 2005 it used a Mercator map. This made excellent sense at the time: true north was at the top everywhere,...
Why the UN Wants a Different World Map Key Takeaways For more than four centuries, the Mercator projection has shaped one of the world’s most familiar views of the planet. The icon...
UN-backed Equal Earth map has educational value but won’t alter navigation apps.
A recent near-unanimous vote in the United Nations to adopt a recalibrated world map hardly raised a few eyebrows, given the overstimulated world in which we live today. However, t...
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to GreenlandThe United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to...
[The Conversation Africa] The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth's landmass...
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