Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World By Trevor Paglen 324 pages; Dutton The Gist: From Area 51 to the once-secret prisons of Afghanistan, there are certain places ...

Looking for a fun activity you can do with your kids to reduce stress and learn geography? Well you're in luck, because the cartographers at National Geographic have adapted our World for Kids and ...

It's no secret that I love maps. I love looking at them, studying them, using them and teaching from them. I love current maps, outdated maps, beautiful maps, historical maps and, well, any kind of ...

The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel ...

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. In February 2013, imagery specialist Charlie Loyd was looking for a job. He'd been working on ...

On a train ride from Philadelphia to Princeton Junction last week, I overheard an elderly couple arguing over the geographical position of Malta, unable to decide whether it was in the Caribbean Sea ...

Of the 7000-odd languages still spoken today, 2560 are represented in The World Atlas of Language Structures—even if the average number per map is "only" 400. This stems from the fact that only ...