In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally ...

With a landscape image, you can create a completely free depth map at the website below. Then map the depth map to the image.

President Donald Trump is hoping to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory covering more than 836,000 square miles —three times the size of Texas, with about 80% covered by a massive ice cap.

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...

The surprising true sizes of countries around the world. Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado Border Patrol commander returns to Chicago as agents deploy pepper balls ...

Almost 100,000 people around the world played an online map projection game that asked them to judge land areas. Their guesses showed that most people’s inner picture of the planet is closer to ...

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is under a winter storm watch ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Heavy lake-effect snow could bring accumulations of a foot or more to some areas. Strong winds up to 45 mph ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...

The call is a demand for Africans to be represented on their own terms, rather than through cartographic traditions that have long diminished their scale and significance. The African Union has ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...