World map in Ptolemy’s “Geographia” (1460) (courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and ...

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 ...

An interactive map made using GIS showing the rise in fuel prices by percentage displayed where they occur by major highway networks. Maps like this enable us to visualize socioeconomic challenges in ...

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator's projection of the ...

For decades, surveying — which consists largely of making measurements to determine the relative positions of points above, on or beneath Earth’s surface — had much higher accuracy than mapping for ...

Niantic Spatial launches two upgraded version of its Scaniverse app and VPS 2.0. The former is useable on regular phones, giving users in construction or logistics, the tools to scan the world around ...

Spexi Geospatial announced on March 17th, 2026 a move that signals where the infrastructure behind AI may be heading next. The company revealed that drone pilots on its aerial mapping network called ...

Hundreds of homemade maps reveal how people from around the globe found their ways through crisis Emily Erdos, Harvard, Massachusetts, United States A map is supposed to symbolize travel, discovery, ...

It's time we gave seagrass the credit it's due. This hero of a plant protects coastlines, stores vast amounts of carbon and ...