The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

There may be no better way of explaining the world than through maps. Whether they depict oil flows, internet cables, or migration patterns, a good map can explain a concept in a way that no other ...

3D digital maps will become living breathing, real-time representations of the world. Some refer to this idea as a "digital twin" of the planet.

Today Google announced Project Tango, delivered first as a smartphone that’s able to scan the world around it in real time. This phone knows its… ...

The World Bank says it is "phasing out" the Mercator map, while the desktop version of Google Maps switched "to a 3D globe view in 2018, though users can still switch back to the Mercator if they ...

To record the world's most vulnerable places before they disappear, we're going to need a lot of lasers.

The Earth Archive nonprofit wants to preserve a record of Earth in its present state by using lasers to create a high-resolution, 3D map of the entire world.

A nonprofit called The Earth Archive wants to make a 3D map of the entire planet, before the climate crisis changes Earth's face forever.

Google wants its map to have a consistent style, but cities and countries vary in their geographical conventions. How do you balance culture and legibility?

The project, called Seabed 2030, aims to map 100% of the global ocean floor by 2030 using largely crowd-sourced data from science vessels, corporations and private boat owners around the world.