Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

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Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

I love maps. My favorite activity on childhood road trips was to study the maps and find interesting cities or other place names and share them with my fellow travelers. I always prefer to be the ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...

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 ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

Good design certainly is not all to care about. Sometimes, a nifty UI can solve many problems or even hide certain failures in functionality. But it can be as perfect and unique as conceivable — if a ...

Map of global average temperature change projected for 2081-2100 in the Atlas for the End of the World (all screenshots via Atlas for the End of the World) “Health of Waters” map in the Atlas for the ...