All those extraneous symbols and endless topographic lines that could easily be confused with countries — if not for Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego, we’d probably go on thinking Dar es ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...

Now Anyone Can Visit One of the World's Great Map Collections. David Rumsey spent decades collecting more than 150,000 maps, and a new center lets the public explore them like never before.

Though they could not eliminate all distortions, their map greatly improves upon the Winkel Tripel projection and has a Goldberg-Gott score of 0.881. While some critics have pointed out that this new ...

Of Hyperbole And Geography: A Map Of The World's 'Other' Capitals An interactive map on Atlas Obscura explores alternate capital cities — not of countries, but products, events and states of mind.

Geologists Have Created The First-Ever Map of the World's Lost Continent — Zealandia . The history of Earth’s landmass leading back to Pangea was a well-known tale, but a certain continent ...

Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by National Geographic ...

Here’s how he redrew the map of the world. He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32.

The near-global topographic map was constructed from 69,000 WAC stereo models and covers the latitude range 79°S to 79°N, 98.2 percent of the entire lunar surface.