Google Maps has got fresh competition. Using machine learning, computer engineers have developed an interactive map that ...

Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

<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 ...

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 ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...