World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...
Time

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
Business Wire

Hivemapper Raises $18M From Multicoin Capital to Create the World’s First Decentralized Mapping Network

Decentralized, Blockchain-Based Mapping Network Announces Hivemapper Dashcam Pre-Orders SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hivemapper Inc., the creator of Hivemapper, a global, decentralized mapping ...