Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

Move aside, Google Maps; your lack of a full-time speedometer may just make drivers move over to this navigation app.

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

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

Beginning in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia steadily escalated into one of the ...

Before Google Maps and Waze, signboards and instinct pointed in the right direction How do you drive? With or without maps? Silly question, isn’t it? These days, it feels like everyone uses maps ...

Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South Amer ...

Former President Barack Obama has expressed his support for California Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed redistricting plan, which would give Democrats an additional five U.S. House seats, and has urged ...

The ability to flag hazards on the map was Waze's main selling point. It allowed users to send reports for traffic jams, ...

How to blur your home on Google Maps You'll need to do this on your computer since the blurring feature isn't available in the Google Maps application on iOS or Android.

The town of Riverhead, Long Island, announced last week that it had found a new way to raise revenue — by using Google Earth to find undeclared backyard pools so the city could tax the ...