Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

A new app lets cruise travellers replay their journeys and track their preferred ships in real time, for a more immersive and ...

While watching the news on TV, I asked my husband David if he knew where that certain place was located. I knew he would know ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

Open-world games use geographic technology for stunning, realistic maps of real locations globally. True Crime: Streets of LA was one of the first to recreate a real-world city accurately in an ...