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 ...

The African Union endorses 'Correct the Map' campaign to replace Mercator projection with Equal Earth for geographical ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead.

Peters, whose parents had been imprisoned by Nazis and who focused on social inequalities as a journalist and academic criticised the Mercator projection as “Euro-centred”.

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...

Policy analyst Bright Simons has questioned the African Union’s (AU) call for the world to ditch the Mercator map projection, ...

The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 ...

As you explore the Study Abroad website, you may see the map above and wonder why it looks slightly different than maps you are used to seeing. This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, ...

Another type, called Goode homolosine, is better at showing proportions but looks like orange-peel art. Yet another, called Gall-Peters, preserves proportions but skews shape.