Facebook is trying to help change that by creating a high-resolution population density map for nearly the entire continent of Africa.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Dubai UAE-based Space42 has entered into a five-year memorandum of understanding with Microsoft and Esri to create the most ...

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

Abu Dhabi’s Space42 is in talks to raise funds to help the satellite communications company expand its mapping initiative in ...

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 ...