Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the ...
Popular Mechanics

This World Map Is So Accurate It Folds Into a Globe

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 ...

35 Maps To Expand Your Knowledge Of The World

A map can take you on a journey, transporting you across continents and cultures all with a single glance. What started as a ...
Fast Company

All World Maps Lie. So Which One Should We Use?

World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014, the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Most world maps show north at the top. But it doesn't have to be that way

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...