As technology moves at the speed of light, we often hear that "there's an app for that." And while maps have been around for centuries, they've evolved to be more than just about navigation, or ...

I used to think there were two types of travellers: map people and no-map people. You'll find map people stationed on street corners in every city from Beijing to La Paz trying to match the street ...

The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

The Correct the Map campaign superimposes countries’ correct relative sizes onto their Mercator projections to demonstrate the Mercator’s distortions. Image via Correct the Map. Some countries and ...