The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller. The Mercator map created in the 16th century enlarges ...

Ecopia, founded in 2013, specializes in using artificial intelligence to extract features from high-resolution satellite imagery and build what it calls a “digital twin of the Earth.” Its machine ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

Maxar Intelligence, the leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights, has partnered with Ecopia AI to launch Vivid™ Features, the most accurate 2D and 3D vector maps offered at global scale ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

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Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

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African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...

World’s first photo of Earth taken from near the Moon was captured by the United States’ Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft and sent back to Earth, where it was received at NASA’s tracking station in Robledo ...