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 ...

The Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

Mercator Projections, the type of map Google and many other services use, were made for navigating the ocean, not visualizing the size of landmasses.

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

Scientists have a new way to try to represent our spherical planet as a flat picture. It involves printing the map as a double-sided circle.

In a perfect world, each map projection would be judged on its own merit and applied to the job that suits it best. But perfect worlds are boring. So why not put two projections in a good ol ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.