New Delhi: Member states of the African Union, on 15 August, signed a petition for the world to ‘reject’ the Mercator map projection and accept a more equitable projection that “more accurately ...
For example, Canada is grossly enlarged in the Mercator projection, while Greenland appears to be many times larger than it truly is. Lastly, Antarctica is the largest area shown on the Mercator ...
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 ...