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Genius new browser game lets you drive anywhere on earth using real world map

Rather than clicking between Street View images, Hop.Earth turns OpenStreetMap and satellite elevation data into a fully ...
Opinion
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The internet has proposed dozens of flat Earth maps, none of them actually work

A simple question about world maps becomes the centerpiece of a deeper examination into one of the internet's most controversial claims. By comparing competing map models with real-world navigation, ...
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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. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

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 ...