It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

"My, Grandma - what a big atlas you have!" All the better to map the surface of the Earth to a frankly-ludicrous level of detail (this thing shows the location of shipwrecks), not to mention display ...

I’ve always enjoyed poring over a good map. Whether it’s thumbing through a road atlas, spinning around a globe, or sticking pushpins into a wall map to designate where I’ve been and where I want to ...

Karl the Fog really gets around. He’s based in San Francisco, but that’s not his primary residence. Sure, he works remotely, which allows him to spread the mist to Point Reyes — a whopping 200 days a ...

We show you how the world map and countries looked back then. Many millions of years ago, the world looked very different. There were no humans, only a few dinosaurs, and our modern continents were ...

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...

“Wine is geography,” Jancis Robinson MW often says. And in this new 8 th edition of The World Atlas of Wine, Ms. Robinson and co-author Hugh Johnson focus on wine region geography in depth. This ...