The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Gerardus Mercator (1512-94), a mathematician and engraver, created the map in 1569 to help sailors navigate their way around ...