For millennia, maps have held talismanic powers, helping to form spatial concepts and advance exploration. They have shaped geopolitical ideas, triggered international disputes and created pictures of ...

From the evolution of humankind in the age of exploration, cartography has been an integral part of the human history. The word cartography is a combination of two word ‘carta’ which means map and ...

I am a former archaeologist and currently a professional geographer, so I especially enjoyed the recent feature article “Following Ancient Footsteps” (HCN, 10/2/17). Among the many highlights was the ...

Come back to geography class for the evening with the teacher you wish you’d had, Nicholas Crane, presenter of acclaimed BBC series Coast This course has now passed – but we update our programme all ...

Drawing upon fieldwork in western Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the eastern Tibetan Plateau as well as historical and contemporary maps, I will argue that there is a recognizable but as yet ...

Cartography is the study of maps and everything associated with them. However, in the recent times, the way maps are made and used has undergone massive change. Gone are the days of physical ...

What may appear to be an image of Tacoma Wash., is, in fact, a simulated one, created by transferring visual patterns of Beijing onto a map of a real Tacoma neighborhood. (Image via Zhao et al., 2021, ...

Cartography is the discipline of making or studying maps. The process of communicating or visualising spatial data, it is often employed in urban planning, environmental studies, disaster management, ...

The maps in the slideshow above represent an underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try to sell you something, ...

For millennia, maps have held talismanic powers, helping to form spatial concepts and advance exploration. They have shaped geopolitical ideas, triggered international disputes and created pictures of ...