News24: MAPS | We built the ultimate South African road trip that visits every national park
MAPS | We built the ultimate South African road trip that visits every national park
We used an algorithm to plot the shortest route through all 21 of South Africa’s national parks. The result is 8 109km connecting the Cape mountains, the vast Kruger, the red dunes of the Kalahari and ...
ONE: 8 maps that will change the way you look at Africa
We’ve pulled together eight maps that put Africa’s population, income, growth, and potential into context. 1. Where the world’s 7 billion live National Geographic‘s map illustrates where and how the ...
The Washington Post: Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map
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 ...
For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new campaign is ...
The Conversation: World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters
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 ...
World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters