America was the ONLY country to vote against making world maps more geographically accurate The UN voted 164–1 to encourage use of the Equal Earth projection, which corrects the massive size distortions created by the centuries-old Mercator map. The United States cast the sole vote against it , dismissing the effort as a “radical ideologicalproject.” Six countries abstained. This from the country currently producing its own government maps featuring names like the “Gulf of America.