The UN’s ‘Correct the Map’ resolution backs equal-area projections like Equal Earth. Here’s why India and South Asia appear larger than on Mercator maps. When the United Nations General Assembly voted ...

The United Nations General Assembly voted 164-1 on September 4, 2026, to adopt the Equal Earth map projection as the official UN-backed world map, marking a significant shift toward representing ...

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 ...

Tokyo is protesting the depiction on an Equal Earth world map on a website of four disputed islands using the same color as ...

On the 30th (local time), Google's artificial intelligence (AI) organization, DeepMind, unveiled a new AI model, "AlphaEarth Foundations," which analyzes vast Earth observation data and easily ...

Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But the UN resolution ...

Google loves itself a cartography app. So much so that it has two of them: Google Maps and Google Earth. Besides having overlapping functionality related to global satellite imagery with geographic ...