NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Here, you can check out a ranking of open-world maps in video games, based on how exhausting it would be to walk around them ...

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest global situation to punch holes through air traffic flows, a ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

A world map is a projection of a three-dimensional space on a flat plane. These distort the distance, direction, or area size, and mapmakers have to choose which they find the most important.

One of the most impressive maps in your book is the map of the world’s mega-cities. You say that by 2030, more than 70 percent of people will live in cities, and that these cities matter a lot ...

When this world map was charted in the 1600s, according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a form of navigation. 5.

World maps pose challenges and opportunities for the mapmaker different from those involved in mapping local areas. To begin with, their scale means they are never seriously used as route-finding ...

A hiker and outdoorsman, Mr. Thomas as a child yearned for a world where nature ruled supreme. His map represents the “idealistic planet that I wanted,” Mr. Thomas, 34, said.

World maps! Let’s talk about ‘em. They’ve been a staple of the JRPG landscape (pun intended, if you see a pun there) since the dawn of time/mid-80s, and, in terms of quality, they tend to ...