Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably ...

Thanks to its mythology, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim not only presents a colossal map, but also an equally rich lore. You can ...

However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the ...

A map can take you on a journey, transporting you across continents and cultures all with a single glance. What started as a ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

As technologies have evolved over millennia, so have the ways in which we’ve mapped the world. But the reasons we map remain the same. From geographic discovery, exploration, and storytelling to the ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

A framed map of the world sold at Ikea appears to be missing something. A picture of the Bjorksta map was uploaded to Reddit, where people were quick to point out the mistake. The Reddit user ...