These immersive open-world games feature maps derived from and inspired by real locations, offering detailed and interactive experiences.

Assassin’s Creed Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt, but its recreation is rooted in real geography. The Nile River, the ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

This is Google’s image textured 3D mesh model of the real-world that has been used by Google Earth for over a decade.

Games Sim This farming sim lets you plant crops anywhere you want on a real-world map, so I patriotically grew corn and raised sheep under the Statue of Liberty Features ...

The coming Google Maps augmented-reality navigation feature will look through your phone’s camera to figure out where you are and show you where you are going.

Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels.

Pokémon Go and other games that use real-world maps are all the rage, but there's a catch: they typically depend on semi-closed map frameworks that weren't intended for gaming, forcing developers ...