We learned in grade school that America was named...  ...ca. The picture here shows one panel of the world map that provided that link.Similarly to many other c...  ...around 1470, Waldseemüller drew his seminal map in 1507 with a colleague, Matthias Ringmann. He c...  ...ias Ringmann. He created a 32-squar...

Pangaea was a "supercontinent" of all the world's...  ...talian digital artist Massimo Pietrobon created a map he calls Pangea Politica. The landmass is Pangaea...  ...ould walk (or take a train) to each other in this map , some parts don't fit together the way you'd thin...

This map shows which states I've been to -the pink ones. I...  ...e desert Southwest somehow. You can make your own map to show others how many states you've seen at the...  ...to show others how many states you've seen at the Maploco Visited States Generator. They provide the...

Maps that compare states to each other are fun, and we...  ...n groups (states). Of course, if you look at such maps and wonder what is going on in your state that yo...  ...salt. Randall Munroe of xkcd takes a swing at the map trend in his latest comic.

Check out this 1947 map called Map of the United States as Californians See It. The...  ...om.Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps , a new book by geographer Stephen Hornsby, colle...  ...librarians generally did not consider pictorial *strong class="matched...

This year is the first time I've seen the trees on...  ...et blooming in February. It isn't my imagination. Maps from the USGS-led USA National Phenology Network...  ...trees, blooming flowers, and animal behavior. The map shown here is the Spring Leaf Index Anomaly for M...

In 1965 and '66, the most popular name for baby gi...  ...every one of the past 105 years in an interactive map by Mike Barry. You can select boys or girls, play...

This map shows the optimal migrations patterns for wildlif...  ...servancy. UW professor Joshua Lawler explains the map .The map is color-coded to depict separate movement patter...  ...ement areas, but once the data were animated on a map...

There are certain uncomplete maps of the known world that we keep because of their...  ...ed measuring instruments, much less aerial views, mapmaking involved a lot of guesswork, and some cartographe...  ...tographers were better than others. Consider this map of the island of C...

John Mitchell was born in the colony of Virginia,...  ...rade and Plantations commissioned him to create a map of the American colonies. Although Mitchell wasn&...  ...asn’t trained in cartography, he produced a map , published in 1755, that was surprisingly accurat...  ...those of the French and Spanish.M...