When it comes to maps—a technology that is 4,000 years old—two completely contradictory things are true: Nothing has changed. And everything has changed. What hasn’t changed is maps are a language.

National Geographic cartographers fill a key map gap on the North American Continental Divide and pay tribute to the Father of American Mapmaking A portion of the Trails Illustrated Wind River Range ...

Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. "Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone ...

Maps and everyday life are now so intertwined for most people that it’s difficult to imagine a world without them. Most of us use at least one map every day. Some of us use many, especially now they ...

Getting to the Newberry Library to visit “Mapping Outside the Lines,” an exhibition of maps old and new, scientific and artistic, was easy. I typed the address into my car’s GPS and followed its ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Since the Declaration of Independence was signed nearly 250 years ago, maps have played an important role in the development of our country, including here in North Carolina.

Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator’s projection of the ...