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 ...

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 ...

Cartographers often simplify maps and reduce detail to clarify information. What can we learn when we apply that approach to ...

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 ...

Before the GPS and smart phones made finding directions easier, paper maps provided the way, promising not only accuracy but also pinpointing unfamiliar places, bits of history and roads less traveled ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...