This project is using AI and satellite data to create the first definitive map of the entire continent of Africa

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...
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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 ...
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Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...
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African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...