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 ...

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 ...

Zacharia Muinde of Map Kibera Trust shows teachers and students their school's page on Open Schools Kenya, a mapping project that helps residents find information on local schools. Courtesy Map Kibera ...

If you're jaded by GPS, if you think maps are mere representations of reality, The Cartographers would like a word with you. These savants, who mastered the arts of scale and legend at the University ...

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 ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter What is a map? In effect, says Peter Barber, head of maps at the British Library, a map is a lie. "Unless you have a scale of ...