Revealing the map’s faded details provides a more complete picture of Columbus’s perception of geography, notes the historian. “It’s always interesting to learn how people conceived the world at that ...

For the past several years, Niantic has tried to build a rich 3D map of the world by asking ... faster and are dramatically more realistic, including capturing details like window transparency ...

Think ‘world map’ and your mind probably jumps to the elliptical Winkel tripel projection, often seen in textbooks and incorporated in world news logos. It’s pretty ubiquitous, but is just ...

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost ...

The world map you are probably familiar with is called the Mercator projection (below), which was developed all the way back in 1569 and greatly distorts the relative areas of land … ...