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 ...

Google has announced on Twitter that Google Maps on desktop no longer shows a flat map. Instead, it shows the world as being spherical. Previously, when you zoomed out of the map on Google Maps ...

We tested Google Maps on a Chromebook Pixel, no slouch when it comes to power. It handled the new vector-based mapping features without any issue, though once we tucked into some fast transitions ...