Following the adoption of the #CorrectTheMap resolution, Prof. Robert Dussey saluted the vision and personal commitment of the President of the Council, H.E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé.
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He also expressed gratitude to the African Union, the African Permanent Reps, & supporters
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Die UN-Generalversammlung hat für eine neue Version der Weltkarte gestimmt. Die sogenannte Mercator-Projektion aus dem 16. Jahrhundert wird durch die Equal Earth-Darstellung abgelöst. Darin wird #Afrika größer dargestellt.

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...

#Correctthemap

No wonder the world is writing US off. As the UN attempts to correct an error we've all lived with since 1569 (the Mercator map) the US is the only nation to vote against it— after previously critiquing the gravity of the transatlantic slave trade. #Luddism #CorrectTheMap www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meanwhile online campaign group #CorrectTheMap are out there giving comic book supervillains terribly brilliant ideas by making statements like: "You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare."

Vielleicht auch interessant, welche Länder sich enthalten haben: Estland, Georgien, Litauen, Moldau, Serbien und Ukraine.
Wer weiß, was sie dazu bewogen hat, gerne Druko.. #Weltkarte #CorrectTheMap #UNO

The map we grew up with shrank Africa.

On Friday the UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to back the Equal Earth projection, after the African Union's Correct The Map campaign. I animated the change. Drag the slider yourself:

papargyri.github.io/correct-the-map

#CorrectTheMap #dataviz #maps

#Wikipedia

The #EqualEarth Projection, adopted by the UN yesterday as a result of the #CorrectTheMap campaign:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_E...

Une nouvelle carte pour le monde approuvée à l'ONU par 164 pays (1 vote contre, #USA) sonne-t-elle le glas de Mercator ou comment se redessine la représentation de la taille des pays ?
➡️ webzine.voyage/s/onu-26
➡️ webzine.voyage/s/npr-26

#map #world #geography #carte #monde #mercator #correctthemap

"A fair world begins with a fair map. Changing the map obviously doesn't change the world. But correcting a representation that distorts it is already an act of truth," Robert Dussey. It is time to fix the projection. #CorrectTheMap #Cartography #Geography #Truth

#CorrectTheMap

'The Mercator map shows Africa as similar in size to Greenland, even though it is 14 times larger.. ..You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare.'
#CorrectTheMap

#CorrectTheMap!

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