The maps are taken from the new book The Atlas of the Real World , published by Thames and Hudson and produced by the researchers … These maps show the world through different eyes.

Maps must be more than static reference tools; they must be dynamic platforms that reflect the world as it changes.

Putting a 3-D planet on a two-dimensional world map was a challenge for early cartographers. So, a Flemish geographer and cartographer named Gerardus Mercator came up with a solution for the most ...

When you look at a map of the world, it makes sense to assume that Greenland and Africa are similar in size. But in reality, the African continent is 14 times as big as the icy northern land mass.

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 coming Google Maps augmented-reality navigation feature will look through your phone’s camera to figure out where you are and show you where you are going.

Fellow space nerds, I come bringing sweet internet relief for the Monday doldrums. It’s stuffin.space, a real-time, 3D-visualized map of all objects looping around Earth, from satellites to ...

If you can't see the maps, click here Greenland measures just 2,166,086 square kilometers (sq km), whereas Africa spans 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps depict a different story.

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 Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by National Geographic ...

This mesmerizing map shows the world’s buses and trains moving in real time. by Chris Ziegler. Source Travic. May 15, ... offered by train and bus operators to show everything moving in real time.

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

In June 2017, the Stockholm-based artificial intelligence company Veridict AB created a map that shows 200 of the world's major mass transit systems moving in real time.The teams used schedule and ...