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 ...

An interactive map made using GIS showing the rise in fuel prices by percentage displayed where they occur by major highway networks. Maps like this enable us to visualize socioeconomic challenges in ...

Civilization 6 has been out for almost three years, with two major expansions released in the interim. But it’s still delivering surprises and delights. With this year’s release of the World Builder, ...

For decades, surveying — which consists largely of making measurements to determine the relative positions of points above, on or beneath Earth’s surface — had much higher accuracy than mapping for ...

Maps are used to explore the world, but they also offer exploration within their own boundaries. The writer Rebecca Solnit once said in an interview: “Maps invite us to locate ourselves in relation to ...

Ronald is a Staff Writer at DualShockers with more than a decade of experience covering video games. He began writing about games in 2013 through public forums, reviews, news, and opinion pieces, ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The ...