Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...

Amsterdam, from ‘Civitates orbis terrarum’ (1576) by Georg Braun (all images courtesy Taschen) “Kindly and most esteemed reader, we hereby place on the market the next book of the most noble cities of ...

I love maps. There's something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. I've previously looked at how the London tube map was appropriated as a visual ...

Maps are but representations of reality, and how Apple and Google have interpreted that reality has led to surprisingly different representations of it. Justin O’Beirne has started a detailed ...

The Cartography Center of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) started in October of 1941 with hand-drawn maps that plotted the geographic data of World War II. The Center today harnesses more ...

“This exquisite collection of rare maps and books dramatically expands our holdings of Holy Land maps, and reinforces our standing at the forefront of historical cartographic research and inquiry,” ...

On a spring Sunday in a Soho penthouse, ten people have gathered for a digital mapping "Edit-A-Thon." Potted plants grow to the ceiling and soft cork carpets the floor. At a long wooden table, an ...