Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people's perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...

Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. While 3D globes are the most accurate way of representing the layout of the Earth’s surface, it’s much more ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to ...

THE second edition of this useful book differs little from the first, which was published in 1914, but the author's identity is now revealed. Most books on map projection are either severely ...

When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the most ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The post, shared by the account Africa First on X, asked viewers to ...

THE problem of reducing the sphere to a plane surface has ever been a difficulty. This realisation has led cartographers to adopt the policy of constructing a map for a specific purpose. The most ...