On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

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, ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article gives you all the information you need to get started with projection mapping applications. Projection mapping is hot. The market size is estimated at over 5.5 billion USD ...

“Maps are facts, but they can also be arguments — and Trump recognises that,” said Cheshire. He suggested that Trump’s love of a real estate deal, where schematic plans become reality, may be behind ...

Cartography consists of the flat, simplified and conventional geometric representation of the earth's surface, presented in the form of maps, charts or blueprints. Because it is a two-dimensional ...

The Mercator projection is considered one of the most important and influential world map projections still used today. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) In actuality, Africa is much bigger than ...