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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...
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 transverse Mercator projection was created for European sailors – and it worked for their world, writes Paul HarwoodThe subject of projections is incredibly complicated and you...
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...
Mapping a sphere onto a flat plane is mathematically impossible. But a better world map than the Mercator projection is
Last year, the African Union pushed for wider adoption of the Equal Area…Tags: Africa, area, cartography, Guardian, projections
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...
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 United Nations voted to support the Equal Area map projection, which more…Tags: cartography, Guardian, Japan, world
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...
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 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...
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,...
The U.N. voted Friday to promote reworked map projections that enhance Africa's size, a move it claims will "more accurately reflect the true size of continents" – the culmination...
It is not legally binding and it "in no way challenges the use of the Mercator projection for maritime and aerial navigation, for which it remains fully suited".
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday calling for world maps to more accurately reflect the relative size of Africa and other regions, over the objecti...
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...
Equal Earth projection passes with 164 votes as Washington slams resolution
Franglais: Anyway the UN is to stop using the Mercator projection for thr world map. And so is France lemonde.fr Client Challenge
UN-backed Equal Earth map has educational value but won’t alter navigation apps.
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...
Togo is leading a campaign, backed by the African Union, urging the United Nations to adopt the Equal Earth projection over the centuries-old Mercator map, which depicts the Africa...
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...
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