Abstract: To address the discrepancy between geodetic coordinates provided by navigation equipment on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and Cartesian coordinates employed for calculating Euclidean ...

Bill argues that because clocks start at 12 and maps start at 0°, the entire coordinate system is wrong. Dan explains that latitude and longitude are reference points, not mechanical gears, and that ...

Almost 100,000 people around the world played an online map projection game that asked them to judge land areas. Their guesses showed that most people’s inner picture of the planet is closer to ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the world, according to IFLScience. Several countries in Africa are now opposing it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

The call is a demand for Africans to be represented on their own terms, rather than through cartographic traditions that have long diminished their scale and significance. The African Union has ...

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 ...

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 ...