Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Mario Kart World's map is vast, but if you need a refresher on exactly where you are, the answer isn't totally obvious.

‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’: On a quest to fix the world map Commonly used projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is ...

Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation Titles like City Bus Manager and Global Farmer are benefiting from OpenStreetMap.

On May 17, the Esports World Cup announced GeoGuessr would join its lineup. Now, the community is protesting and has disabled most major maps in a 'blackout', s ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point. See ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

Image Represents One of the First-Ever Maps of the World Anaximander's map was said to have been made between 2,500 and 2,600 years ago.

Minecraft has a massive world, and many third-party services allow players to see the maps of their worlds.

From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.