Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. What's particularly drawing about the map, however, is that it's very aesthetically impressive. It features ...

Maps have always been essential tools for making sense of the world around us. From hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital systems, they visualize space, plan movement and understand places. But the ...

Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. “I ...

Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. “I ...

MIT Press provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the ...

Before satellite imagery and GPS, paper maps helped us navigate the world. Perhaps, not surprisingly many contained errors. What might surprise you is that some of those errors were intentional. In a ...

More than half a million Missouri highway maps rolled off the presses this year, proof that paper maps still have a purpose in the digital era. Despite the widespread reliance on digital GPS devices, ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The ...

While there are no official stats on how many people use it, Google Maps is the world's number one mobile navigation app. It comes pre-loaded on Android devices, and Apple users often install it to ...

Even if everything navigation is pointing in the direction of GPS, you'll never tear some folks away from their paper maps. In Northern New Jersey, Stephanie Kivett Ohnegian keeps an atlas in her car ...

More than half a million Missouri highway maps rolled off the presses this year, proof that paper maps still have a purpose in the digital era. Despite the widespread reliance on digital GPS devices, ...