Wplace is the Google Maps of pixel art, a site where anyone can put their artistic mark on a world map, and everyone else can ...

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real ...

With Google Maps Platform, designed to help businesses and developers incorporate geospatial data into their products and services, these updates are important to businesses around the world.

Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World In 1765, a 22-year-old British naval officer named James Rennell set out to map the entire Indian subcontinent.

The map is colored by biome types explained in the legend. The map is also available in Google Maps and Virtual Earth. This is a really interesting map!

That is: a more accurate one. Google recently announced that its map would now depict a round Earth, according to The Verge. Now, when you zoom all the way out, Earth appears to be round, not flat.

Back in February, we compared maps of the Olympic sites in Sochi made by Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, the massively crowdsourced world map created by volunteers. OSM's maps easily swept the ...

What if there was an app that made sure you'll never lose track of your parked car again? Good news, that app it already ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth ...