29 days ago · Global
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
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Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display Three cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near-universal adoption of a map they created to more accurately show the sizes of Africa and Europe, even though they have received a few…
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
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