Matt and Jane Walsh live at the corner of Geek and Lombard streets, a humorous address if Geek Street actually existed. But Geek Street, which appears on the San Francisco transit map published by ...

Nell Young has lived with maps her entire life, first as the only child of eminent cartographers and later as an expert in cartography herself. Even so, Nell doesn't realize just how magical maps can ...

Zacharia Muinde of Map Kibera Trust shows teachers and students their school's page on Open Schools Kenya, a mapping project that helps residents find information on local schools. Courtesy Map Kibera ...

Premier public safety–focused political firm doubles down on data-driven campaigns, Digital Blockwalking™ and first ...

World map in Ptolemy’s “Geographia” (1460) (courtesy Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and ...

From cave drawings to navigational charts to GPS, people have created and used maps to help them define, order and navigate their worlds. Four hundred years ago, in the Age of Exploration, it was ...

If you're jaded by GPS, if you think maps are mere representations of reality, The Cartographers would like a word with you. These savants, who mastered the arts of scale and legend at the University ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Peng Shepherd’s “The Cartographers” is, at its heart, about three things: family, found and otherwise; how much of one’s life can be built and balanced on a single lie; and the transformative nature ...

Nell Young has lived with maps her entire life, first as the only child of eminent cartographers and later as an expert in cartography herself. Even so, Nell doesn't realize just how magical maps can ...