for example. 1918 WESTERN THEATRE OF WAR (DETAIL) The legend of the May 1918 supplement map indicates that it was “Prepared in the map department of the National Geographic Society.” ...

The map above is a great example. Made in 1900, it portrays Russia as an octopus with tentacles reaching out in all directions, strangling Poland, Finland, and China, and reaching toward Turkey ...

Maps, and the powerful geospatial technologies that populate them with data are also playing a bigger role in our lives. Here’s a look at an example from a few fields ways where maps and ...

“Frisland,” for example ... Within weeks the National Geographic Society announced that Sandy Island would be stricken from all of its maps, and other mapmakers followed suit.

ByRyan Morris and Ryan Williams This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National ... maps of urban heat islands across the United States. On a hot day in Washington, D.C., for example ...

National Geographic has announced it is participating in the Google Maps Engine public data program ... to make available more specialist data, for example crisis and emergency management content ...

For example ... prominently featured on their map. Katherine Parker, cartographic collections manager at the Royal Geographical Society, says that “most new geographic features would debut ...

The best example of this movement is the OpenStreetMap ... When attempting to map contentious areas, National Geographic not only works closely with individual governmental entities but also ...

The HOLC maps and notes have always been open to the public at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, and some have been put online previously, but this is the first time so many of them ...

National Geographic’s new initiative to inform, inspire and empower people to live more lightly on the planet. Usually, changes to world maps are the result of political changes – for example ...