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 ...
President-elect Donald Trump's recently revived determination to acquire Greenland have many speculating why he wants the self-governing territory. One reason could be how "massive" he believes the ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...
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 ...
A campaign is underway to replace the world’s most popular map, which the effort’s supporters say promotes a false view of the continent and its size. Mercator projection Equal Earth projection ...
LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...
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Bientôt une carte du monde plus fidèle à la réalité?
« Une carte n'est pas le territoire », comme disait le philosophe Alfred Korzybski. Une énième initiative pour refléter la taille réelle des pays a obtenu la semaine dernière l'appui de l’Union ...
Face aux distorsions géographiques héritées du colonialisme, l’Union Africaine s’engage aux côtés d’organisations panafricaines pour promouvoir une représentation cartographique plus juste du ...
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