No more politics!” This week’s story is about a conversation between a former Geography teacher, now a real estate agent, who ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Travel Travel News Reddit People shocked as new map shows how small some countries actually are Users on Reddit have been left baffled after seeing a map with the true size and shape of countries ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

The basic mathematical problem every mapmaker confronts is that the Earth is spherical and maps are flat. Imagine flattening a portion of a paper globe: You’ll either have to tear the paper or crinkle ...

This line is perfectly straight, people.Representing a 3D world on a 2D map is always going to end up with some issues and some compromises. No matter how accurate you try to make it, you will end ...

A painted line on the footpath marks latitude 0° 0’ 0” and it’s a popular spot for tourists to pose with one foot in either hemisphere. But it’s in the wrong spot.

By the time he was done, he had devised a system of lines of latitude and longitude, and plotted some 10,000 locations—from Britain to Europe, Asia and North Africa.

For centuries, cartographers have made numerous attempts to account for the inconsistency while trying to recreate the most accurate map of the Earth. Maps are compromises between distorting the ...