Wohoo! In good mapping news, the UN voted 164 to 1 (guess who) to recommend the Equal Earth projection over Mercator, which for centuries has shrunk Africa and inflated everything near the poles. Thank you, Togo! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa Wonder how many UN delegates watched the West Wing episode beforehand. While the real White House is busy renaming gulfs and lakes, in fiction it might have paved the way for fairer maps: https://youtu.be/eLqC3FNNOaI #CorrectTheMap #EqualEarth #mercator #mapping