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 ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a "Correct the Map" campaign, calling for an end to the use of the standard ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

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.

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.

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!

Through vast cross-country stretches or tight city streets, Google Maps and Waze guide you where you need to go—but which one is the top map app? I put them head-to-head to find out.

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 ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...