Ever wondered why Greenland looks as big as Africa on the map? It’s because of something called the Mercator projection. Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was challenging for early ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

The Youtube channel of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center posted an animated map showing every recorded earthquake and tsunami in sequence as they occurred from January 1, 1901, through December 31, ...

Google Maps is one of the most downloaded apps, and for good reason: It tells us where we're going. But centuries before we had satellite imaging, high altitude photography, or smartphones, people ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Stephanie Harris writes on Game Rant about Film, TV, and Video Games. She's am experienced content writer who always has a show on the go. Open-world games use geographic technology for stunning, ...

Long before satellite imagery and digital maps became common, a Danish farmer carved out one of the world’s most unusual geographical attractions entirely by hand inside a lake. Inspired by a stone ...

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their original literal meanings, as far as anyone could be sure. Language, after all, is a complex and confusing thing ...