Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...

Oxford University Press recently published "The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History," edited by UC Irvine historian Patricia Seed. It's more than 200 pages of maps along ...

Google Maps has a history of changing place names and world borders for different users in different locations, especially ...