The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gall%E2%80 ...

Infographic explaining different map projections and the advantages and limits of three projections: the Mercator, the Gall-Peters and the Equal Earth projections The Mercator world map, long a ...

Trygve H. Inda has released a new version of EarthDesk, the world time and mapping tool. EarthDesk replaces your Mac desktop with an animated, real-time rendering of the earth that displays eleven ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rex Cammack, chair and associate professor in the Department of Geography and Geology, rolls up a map in the map library in the Durham Science Center at University of Nebraska at Omaha in Omaha on ...