If you’re looking for some websites to cure boredom, two that will do that are City Guesser and GeoGuesser. They’re ...
Sara is a writer and filmmaker/content creator who hails from Baltimore, Maryland. Her past exploits have been working for almost a decade on local television and working as a freelance writer for a ...
As technologies have evolved over millennia, so have the ways in which we’ve mapped the world. But the reasons we map remain the same. From geographic discovery, exploration, and storytelling to the ...
In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...