The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Fans of the Roll Player series of board games got some great news from Thunderworks games. The latest spin-off Cartographers Heroes is available to back now on Kickstarter. As you might expect from ...

This image released by William Morrow shows "The Cartographers" by Peng Shepherd. (William Morrow via AP) “The Cartographers," by Peng Shepherd (William Morrow) Nell Young has lived with maps her ...

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 ...

Zacharia Muinde of Map Kibera Trust shows teachers and students their school's page on Open Schools Kenya, a mapping project that helps residents find information on local schools. Courtesy Map Kibera ...

Before the GPS and smart phones made finding directions easier, paper maps provided the way, promising not only accuracy but also pinpointing unfamiliar places, bits of history and roads less traveled ...

Matt and Jane Walsh live at the corner of Geek and Lombard streets, a humorous address if Geek Street actually existed. But Geek Street, which appears on the San Francisco transit map published by ...

For the past five months, University of California, Berkeley cartography professor Darin Jensen has been collecting maps about food. They fill the walls of his office, each one telling a different ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter What is a map? In effect, says Peter Barber, head of maps at the British Library, a map is a lie. "Unless you have a scale of ...