American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps ...

In today's digital era, map apps have revolutionized how we navigate our surroundings. Gone are the days of relying on printed directions or designated navigators; now, our smartphones serve as our ...

This Columbus day, celebrate the person who really discovered America -- aka, pretty much everyone except Christopher Columbus. By now, it's well known that Indigenous people populated America well ...

I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat ...

Instagram's new feature that shows users' current locations is prompting some users to worry if their location will suddenly be shared on the platform. Meta announced the rollout of several new ...

In the modern era, the European discovery of North American became a proxy for conflicts between American Protestants and Catholics, as well as northern Europeans who claimed Vikings like Leif ...

How do you flatten a sphere? For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work ...

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator running ...