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Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map
In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map ... for zoomable web maps, which work seamlessly over its simple ...
That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
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