World map with the British Empire highlighted in red, Mercator projection. Author: Colomb, J.C.R. Publisher: MacClure & Co. Date: 1886. Location: Great Britain. BY Ruben Pater In November 2014 ...

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...

The most detailed maps of the world will be for cars, not humans Here, Civil Maps, and even Nvidia are all working on a new kind of cartography. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Mar 11, 2017 12:00 pm | 123 ...

The World According To Hecataeus About 520 B.C. [with] The World According To Herodotus About 450 B.C. (to Accompany) Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and Modern : New Census Edition-Indexed. 1901.

A 1985 study of mental world maps found that geographers had the same misconceptions of the relative latitude of cities in North America and Europe as everyone else. Cartographers aren’t immune ...

The Street View Trekker, a 360-degree and 140-megapixel camera system with laser sensors mounted onto a wearable backpack that can quickly create a digital map of the area, is just one of the ...

It’s hard to appreciate just how quickly and thoroughly Twitter has taken over the world. Just seven years ago, in 2006, it was an idea sketched out on a pad of paper.Now, the service is used by ...