In 1375, a Spanish mapmaker made a world map we now refer to as the Catalan Atlas. For its time, the atlas was remarkably ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

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 ...

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, ...