It’s hardly a fail on the scale of Apple Maps – with its farm-labeled-as-an-airport fiasco and other such mishaps – but it will nevertheless be refreshing for some people to learn that Google, widely ...

Thomas Jefferys, “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies” (London, 1768) (courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the ...

Cartography is a delicate skill. Making maps requires careful charting of landmasses, rivers, mountains, and all kinds of terrain. Before satellite imagery, this was much more difficult. For instance, ...

The year is 1973, and a ragtag group of U.S. military officials, scientists, and monster hunters set off on a special mission to map a newly discovered island with a very large secret. That’s the plot ...

The first known map was a painting of a cityscape and an erupting volcano. Found on the wall of a baked-mud dwelling in the ancient Catal Huyuk settlement in present-day Turkey, it was drawn around ...

Greece has about 6000 islands, 230 of which are inhabited. Here is a map explaining all of the Greek island groups.