Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

In 1569 a Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator devised a map on which loxodromes appear as straight lines. This map quickly became the standard for nautical purposes.

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

Image via Tartu University Library One of the grandfathers of modern navigation Gerardus Mercator is being rightly celebrated in Google Doodle form today in honour of his 503rd birthday.

For centuries, Africa has been systematically erased through the hegemonic Western cartographic gaze, its territorial ...

The African Union and campaigners want Africa's map to be corrected to its true size after years of distortion ...