For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who ... To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world maps—has shrunk ... The world cannot afford to keep making decisions based on a 400-year-old distortion. It’s time to fix the map and reframe the ...

Co-ordinates are also available as Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and 3-degree Transverse ... create a single TIFF image showing the whole Fort McMurray index map. There may be some distortion in ...

The classic Mercator Projection has never looked so dull ... the landmass was still erroneously depicted as an island on many maps for a few centuries. It’s thought this mistake was driven ...

Many people think Africa is a country but it’s a continent with 54 diverse nations. From Nigeria to Egypt to South Africa, ...

FCC chairman Brendan Carr criticized Comcast for “news distortion” over MSNBC’s decision not to carry the White House’s press briefing on deportations live on Wednesday. The criticism came ...