In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Maps are to open worlds what the buns are to a hamburger: the element that's taken for granted but holds the whole thing ...

From maps that become art to a rack of Rand McNally road maps, straight out of gas stations of yore, “Mapping Outside the ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Sara is a writer and filmmaker/content creator who hails from Baltimore, Maryland. Her past exploits have been working for almost a decade on local television and working as a freelance writer for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...

The Wolfsonian–FIU charts global ambition in “Plotting Power: Maps and the Modern Age,” on view through April 16, 2023. Drawing from the Wolfsonian’s renowned collection of art and design, Plotting ...

Mike Duggan receives funding from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, the EPSRC and King's College London. He is affiliated with the Livingmaps Network Maps and everyday life are now so ...