Physical maps might feel out of date in our smartphone and GPS age but maps aren’t just for navigation. They are windows into ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

On the Map author Simon Garfield speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the history of maps, how they can be used as political tools, and how GPS... Mapping A History Of The World, And Our Place In It ...

BOSTON – When some of the first maps were printed in the late 15th century, they were simple diagrams of three continents and one giant ocean. Over the next several centuries, more continents were ...

The history of maps can go back 5,000 years. During the early years of maps, there were no rules relating to how they were oriented. Maps now normally go north to south. Before 4 BC, maps were usually ...

Maps, says Great Maps author and historian Jerry Brotton, are more than a geographic object, a tool to get us from point A to B. From the ancient Greeks to Google Earth, all human cultures have had an ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

When you think of a piece of mapping software, what comes to mind? Maybe advanced, high resolution satellite imagery? Or detailed transportation time calculating algorithms? Well whatever comes to ...