The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Google Maps gets 3D view of the world Earth view brings depth to Google's mapping service. It needs a browser plug-in for now some day we'll be cruising in 3D in Google's virtual world.

Those measurements, of course, made for less accurate maps. But since then, our view of the world has sharpened. Here are seven maps that show how far we've come in our understanding of the world.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The Mercator map gives us a 16th-century world view because it shows Europe larger, and the colonized countries smaller.

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

For years, users of Google Maps have had numerous tools to navigate the planet: Street View, 3D representations, and more. Now Google is adding Immersive View, combining real-world imagery and ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view ...