For millennia, maps have held talismanic powers, helping to form spatial concepts and advance exploration. They have shaped geopolitical ideas, triggered international disputes and created pictures of ...

The stark white-on-black image on the cover of “Cartographic Grounds,” edited by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim, is beautiful and mysterious. Is this Antarctica? Or somewhere within the Arctic ...

Researchers at the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS) have developed a method to represent network systems, such as postal services and the internet, at different ...

If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...

I love maps. There's something about cartography that lends itself to visualizing much more than land and geography. I've previously looked at how the London tube map was appropriated as a visual ...

Having won multiple international awards and set an exceptional standard for mapping in Australia and worldwide, Australian Geographic’s head cartographer, Will Pringle, 80, passed away on 16 November ...

The maps submitted this year to the bi-annual Barbara Petchenik Children’s Map Competition range from adorable to masterful. Nearly two hundred finalists from 34 different countries were on display at ...