Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

National Geographic World Atlas is a pretty, if basic, world atlas iPad app that relies on Bing Maps for its higher-res imagery. The Global View The opening view on the app's homepage shows the Earth ...

To fill the World Map in Where Winds Meets, you need to find Wayfarers. This guide details the location of all of the ...

National Geographic World Atlas is a pretty, if basic, world atlas iPad app that relies on Bing Maps for its higher-res imagery. The Global View The opening view on the app's homepage shows the Earth ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...