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Google DeepMind announced today a breakthrough artificial intelligence system that transforms how organizations analyze Earth's surface, potentially revolutionizing environmental monitoring and ...

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We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

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The Equal Earth projection shows countries’ true relative sizes, unlike the Mercator map, which critics say makes Africa look smaller than it is.

The United Nations General Assembly voted 164-1 on September 4, 2026, to adopt the Equal Earth map projection as the official UN-backed world map, marking a significant shift toward representing ...

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Most people today use Google Maps to find local schools, malls, and the closest Starbucks, according to this year’s Google Zeitgeist, which catalogs the top searches of 2011. But there was more to ...