#cartography — Public Fediverse posts

Spotted in my RSS feeds: a Chrome extension called Retake the Lake. (This link goes to a GitHub repository. Here is the extension in the Chrome Web store.) “This is a (hopefully temporary) extension for Chrome browsers that corrects ‘Lake America’ to ‘Lake Ontario’ in two ways.”

Interesting video on the actual size of a 6-mile hex:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvuV9zuXnQ

#TTRPG #DND #Cartography

"New World Map: UN Adopts Resolution Promoting Equal-Area Projections Over Mercator"

#UN #USA #EU #Asia #Africa #NorthAmerica #SouthAmerica #Geography #Maps #Cartography #Accuracy

https://www.latestly.com/world/new-world-map-un-adopts-resolution-promoting-equal-area-projections-over-mercator-7590749.html

U.N. endorses map change to represent Africa more accurately - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/QfKF2

'The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radical ideological project.” '

#UN #Maps #Cartography #USA #RightWing

There is no good reason to oppose the new map. Or maybe there is? Go ahead and inform me if there is... I dare you.🙃

https://www.politico.eu/article/un-backs-effort-to-depict-africa-correctly-on-maps-despite-us-opposition/

#cartography #un #africa

@bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

#map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

@bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

#map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

@bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

#map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

@bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

#map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

@bibliolater It doesn't surprise me at all after the silly Trumpistan "maps".

It's good to see how the Rest Of The World resists and works. The US-fascists isolate their country effectively!

It's a pity that the article gives so much quote place for the losers.

#map #UN #maps #cartography #geography

Africa bigger, North America and Europe smaller: UN adopts new world map

The world could soon look a little different on classroom walls, in textbooks and on digital maps. The…
#Europe #EU ##AfricaOnMaps ##Cartography ##CorrectTheMap ##EqualAreaMaps ##EqualEarthProjection ##MapDistortion ##MercatorProjection ##UNResolution ##WorldMaps #geopolitics
https://www.europesays.com/europe/131173/

The UN Just Endorsed a Massive New World Map—And It Changes Everything About How We See Africa

Full story 👇

Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/09/un-endorses-new-africa-size-world-map.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #Global #WorldNews #BreakingNews #GlobalAffairs #AfricaMap #UNGeneralAssembly #Cartography #NewsAlert #TopStory

The U.N. has voted to adopt a new world map as standard. They are dumping the Mercator Projection for an Equal Earth Projection, a map that shows landmasses much closer to their real size.

It makes Africa and other equatorial landmasses look larger than previously, and shrinks Europe, North America, Russia, and especially Greenland.

The only country to speak and vote against the resolution was the USA. No surprise.

The US delegate actually sat there and claimed that the UN was ignoring real problems while working on changing maps for idealogical and political reasons (ignoring the science completely). How she stopped from dissolving in a puddle of irony I'll never know. She also claimed that passing symbolic resolutions like changing maps was why the U.N. is "losing its credibility" – the puddle deepens.

Six countries—Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine—abstained from voting.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284

#UN #World #Cartography

https://www.europesays.com/ie/673344/ US the only country to vote against major map reform to more accurately display Africa #Africa #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #cartography #Éire #EqualEarthProjection #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #maps #News #OffTheCharts #TopStories #TopStories #UnitedNations #UnitedStates

UN approves new world #map to end centuries of shrinking #Africa on the page

https://youtu.be/iHkMK4n925c

#142holdheap #geography #cartography #history

UN approves new world #map to end centuries of shrinking #Africa on the page

https://youtu.be/iHkMK4n925c

#142holdheap #geography #cartography #history

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/116823204398314320

So the 80th session of the #UnitedNations General Assembly held a vote yesterday on the anti- #Mercator resolution that I wrote about back in June. It passed 164–1, with the #UnitedStates being the lone opposing vote very likely because the resolution is “woke” and goes against Trump’s distaste of DEI.

Resolution: https://docs.un.org/en/A/80/L.104

#maps #MapProjections #cartography #Mapstodon #gischat #geopolitics

UN votes to adopt new #world #map that shows Africa’s true scale

In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa.

#142holdheap #geography #cartography

UN votes to adopt new #world #map that shows Africa’s true scale

In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa.

#142holdheap #geography #cartography

UN votes to adopt new #world #map that shows Africa’s true scale

In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa.

#142holdheap #geography #cartography

UN votes to adopt new #world #map that shows Africa’s true scale

In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa.

#142holdheap #geography #cartography

UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
(Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa <-- shared media article
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
--
[just a reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
(Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
--
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa <-- shared media article
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
--
[just a reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
(Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
--
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa <-- shared media article
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
--
[just a reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
(Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
--
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa <-- shared media article
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
--
[just a reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

UN Votes To Adopt New World Map That Shows Africa’s True Scale
(Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland)
--
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa <-- shared media article
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection <-- details of the Equal Earth projection
--
[EXCELLENT!!! The one NO vote ('superfluous'???!!!) was very much noted!; just a polite reminder that the 16th C Mercator Projection was designed as an aid to magnetic compass navigation (rhumb lines, etc) --- NOT as some form of continued colonial domination/oppression (although that clearly existed in other ways); this is despite the technically inept and historically illiterate #poppycock that the #BostonPublicSchools, etc would try and have you believe otherwise!! (P.S. #JustSayNoToGallPeters!)]
“The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
In a session at its headquarters in New York, the UN general assembly officially retired the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of one based on the more accurate 2018 Equal Earth design.
At the session, 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.
UN resolutions are non-enforceable, so countries and institutions will not be mandated to use only the new projection or forbidden from using the old one. However, the outcome is expected to result in an update of classroom curriculums and everyday technology given the wide usage of the Mercator projection in education, technology and governance.
Togo, which spearheaded a campaign for the resolution on behalf of the African Union, said the resolution “recognises and affirms that disproportionate cartographic representations, particularly those resulting from the Mercator projection, have had lasting cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical and socioeconomic effects, contributing to a drastic reduction in the perceived size of Africa and other regions of the world in the global collective imagination”.
Speaking before the resolution passed, Robert Dussey, Togo’s foreign affairs minister, said: “This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality.”
The Mercator layout was introduced by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help sailors navigate the seas. Almost five centuries later, it remains the global standard...”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #global #worldview #Africa #UN #UnitedNations #Togo #EqualEarth #Mercator #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #EckertIV #size #shape #countries #continents #globe #CorrectTheMap

Tartary (Cartography 🗺️)

Tartary or Tatary was a blanket term used in Western European literature and cartography for a vast part of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea, the Ural Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the northern borders of Medieval China, India, and Persia, at a time when this region was largely unknown to European geographers. The active use of the toponym can be traced f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary

#Tartary #Exonyms #EastAsia #Cartography #MongolStates #Pseudohistory

Plus proche de la réalité
🌐 L’ONU adopte une réforme d’ampleur de la cartographie mondiale
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/2026-09-04/plus-proche-de-la-realite/l-onu-adopte-une-reforme-d-ampleur-de-la-cartographie-mondiale.php
#monde #média #ONU #Afrique #carte #maps #cartographie #cartography #projection #Mercator #EqualEarth

This is great news. The Mercator projection makes Africa appear far smaller than it really is—Greenland looks comparable in size, even though Africa is about 14 times larger.
Maps shape how we understand the world, and this distortion has helped make Africa feel smaller, more peripheral, and psychologically distant for generations of Western students. I hope Canada rethinks the maps we use in our schools, too.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/united-nations-mercator-map-projection-africa-9.7332900
#Cartography #Africa #Education #Decolonization #EqualEarth

The UN Just Adopted a New Africa Map — And the US Is Furious About It 🌍

Full story 👇

Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/09/un-adopts-new-africa-map-cartography.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #Global #WorldNews #BreakingNews #GlobalAffairs #AfricaMap #Cartography #UNMapUpdate #Geopolitics #TopStory

from the class is that map projections each have advantages and disadvantages. When you're trying to represent objects that are part of an oblate-shaped planet and represent them in 2D, there are compromises. You need to choose the best projection for what you're trying to use the map for.

https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Oceanography/Introduction_to_Oceanography_(Webb)/02%3A_Getting_our_Bearings/2.04%3A_Map_Projections #Cartography

When I finished my undergrad in Fine Art and was taking more Social Studies-related courses to back up getting a cert to teach Social Studies at the secondary level, I took a cartography course. I really enjoyed it.

Hung onto my textbook for years until rising housing prices once more made me have to shed bits of my library.

One thing that stuck with me

#Cartography

🌐 L’ONU soutient l’offensive africaine pour redessiner la carte du monde
https://news.un.org/fr/story/2026/09/1159416
#monde #ONU #Afrique #projection #carte #cartographie #maps #cartography #word #média #éducation #école #média

#histsci and #cartography news!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ydycq3dngygk7n5kepavihuv/post/3mupod4za2s2r

We just published our recap of the 2026 @OpenStreetMapUS conference from earlier this summer. In this post Lead Cartographer @alan explores some results from our Cartographic Tooling Census and shares highlights from his talk about mapping totem poles in OpenStreetMap. Check it out on the blog now! #maps #OpenStreetMap #cartography #OpenSource https://stamen.com/stamen-at-state-of-the-map-us-2026/

#UN votes to adopt new #WorldMap that shows #Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

#Cartography #MapProjections #Metcator #EckertIV #Gall-Peters #Geography #Politics

#UN votes to adopt new #WorldMap that shows #Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

#Cartography #MapProjections #Metcator #EckertIV #Gall-Peters #Geography #Politics

#UN votes to adopt new #WorldMap that shows #Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

#Cartography #MapProjections #Metcator #EckertIV #Gall-Peters #Geography #Politics

#UN votes to adopt new #WorldMap that shows #Africa’s true scale | Africa | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

#Cartography #MapProjections #Metcator #EckertIV #Gall-Peters #Geography #Politics