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.

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

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.

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 ...