Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species?

If you open Google Maps on your computer (go ahead, I'll wait), you'll likely see the town or city you live in, or maybe the last place you looked up. Now, zoom out. No, more than that. Keep going.

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before. The two-sided map is made up of two circles ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels. By Natasha Frost Reporting ...

After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle ...

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 ...