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It's rare that map projections make international news. So last week was pretty exciting for cartographers. The UN endorsed a resolution to promote maps that accurately reflect the true size of continents, dethroning the 500-year-old Mercator projection in the process.

The decision, which was backed by the African Union, was nearly unanimous: 164 countries voted in favour and just a single nation opposed.…