France drops Mercator maps as Africa pushes for truer world view
France will adopt equal-area maps and back a UN resolution after officials said Mercator projections distort continents’ true sizes.
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A highly symbolic vote took place at the United Nations General Assembly. A resolution, carried by Togo and the African Union, imposed a new way of representing the world. It is a map that gives the continents their real proportions. France adopted it, unlike the United States, because the maps have always been of eminent political significance. The interest is to change the maps in textbooks. (International).
France drops Mercator maps as Africa pushes for truer world view
France will stop using maps based on the traditional Mercator projection, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Friday – backing an African push for a more accurate representation of the continent.
France adopts fairer world map ahead of UN vote on more balanced geography
As part of a movement led by the African Union, Paris announced on Friday that it will abandon the Mercator projection to better reflect the physical reality of the planet. France will now appear smaller on world maps.
France has officially abandoned the Mercator projection that the world has been using for five centuries now, written by Le Monde, which has expanded the West and reduced Africa by enshrining the false notion of the world. Today, the map is becoming a political instrument.
Real size of Russia compared to the African continent. - Truesize.net Present in our geography courses since the night of time, the planisphere designed by Gérard Mercator in the 16th century has bad proportions concerning some countries. This map was originally planned for the navigators of the time. "What is very important is to understand that it does it for a precise use, it is navigation. The sailors need a map on which when they navigate i…
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