The Wolfsonian–FIU charts global ambition in “Plotting Power: Maps and the Modern Age,” on view through April 16, 2023. Drawing from the Wolfsonian’s renowned collection of art and design, Plotting ...

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, ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geography isn’t just about naming capital cities or pointing to places on a map. It’s about understanding the world, how people ...

Modern sensing technologies have spawned big data, which is now driving AI to describe, analyze, and simulate geographic systems—forming a new research paradigm that is non-hypothesis-testing and less ...

"You can’t accurately project the surface of a sphere onto a rectangle," said one commenter.

If you were an alien newly arrived on this planet, fully unaware of the last 2,000 years of human history and looking for a primer on the nations of the Earth, you could do much worse than the books ...