Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text.

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times: a map on the wall, north at the top, south down below. It feels so natural that we ...

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries. It’s also starting to reconfigure how contractors find their next big ...

New Zealand's stunning beauty and rich Māori culture are often overlooked on world maps due to its geographic isolation and the limitations of map projections like Mercator. This recurring omission, ...

Kyle has a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies and has loved video games for as long as he can remember. He's owned every PlayStation, dabbled with the occasional Xbox, and even owned a ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Africa is putting its foot down when it comes to the Mercator projection map, the most widely used representation of the world, according to IFLScience. Several countries in Africa are now opposing it ...

The maps of the world you’ve been looking at all your life are wrong and should be replaced, according to a group promoting a new map that more accurately shows Africa as the second largest continent.

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology.View full profile Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology ...