Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

The map on the logbook is nice, but it only covers a narrow strip of the world somewhat around the user's latitude. In addition, it uses the Mercator projection, which is misleading with regard to ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. These circular maps shows the distribution of Pluto's dark and bright terrains as revealed by NASA's New Horizons ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

The call is a demand for Africans to be represented on their own terms, rather than through cartographic traditions that have long diminished their scale and significance. The African Union has ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...