Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

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 ...

The world of Luxendarc is one that echoes some of the best 3D world maps in JRPG history. It's big, expansive and has an ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

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, the ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...

World maps! Let’s talk about ‘em. They’ve been a staple of the JRPG landscape (pun intended, if you see a pun there) since the dawn of time/mid-80s, and, in terms of quality, they tend to span a wide ...