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

Have you ever tried smashing a ball into a flat rectangle? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you ...

As you explore the Study Abroad website, you may see the map above and wonder why it looks slightly different than maps you are used to seeing. This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, ...

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 ...

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

Do you think you know the world? Let’s turn it upside down! We usually see countries the right way up - but not this time. In ...

<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 ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

"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.

Environmental scientist Alexandra Ordoñez Alvarez from the University of Queensland collects data in Far Northern Great Barrier Reef on Ashmore Bank. Courtesy of Arizona State University Scientists ...