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 New York Times: Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It
Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It
Los Angeles Times: 14 Greenlands fit inside Africa: Campaign gains global momentum for map accuracy
DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...
14 Greenlands fit inside Africa: Campaign gains global momentum for map accuracy
NPR: African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
MSN: Space42, Microsoft, and Esri launch initiative to digitally map all of Africa
Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company under technology group G42, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft and Esri to launch the Map Africa Initiative, a ...
Space42, Microsoft, and Esri launch initiative to digitally map all of Africa