A new online platform called wplace invites users to “paint the world” on a massive digital canvas. This ever-evolving map ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

"People tend to collect maps of places with which they have a special connection," he says. "As people travel more, they have stronger feelings about a wider range of places around the world.

How do you represent the world globe on a flat surface? Can it be done without distorting the sizes of countries and continents and the distances between places? What would it take to make an accurate ...

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 ...

Mapmaking has evolved from the early cartographers measuring horizons to Google Maps telling us every turn. Here are some maps that show how far we've come.

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

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world ...