UN Approves Resolution for World Map That Depicts Africa’s Size More Accurately

Maps have been in the news of late, largely because of the forelock-tugging pusillanimity shown by Google and Apple in ...
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Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps

Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other online maps, distorts the size of landmasses, making Africa look small ...
Nature

The Theory of Map-Projections, with special reference to the Projections used in the Survey Department

THE subject of map projections is one in which the English language is strangely deficient, a deficiency the more apparent when contrasted with the wealth of Continental literature on the subject.
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps

The classic square Mercator map of the world as seen in Google Maps. Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other ...