Harvard University graduate student Bill Ranki...  ...ography. It's filled with unique and imaginative maps , such as the above world map plotting relative po...  ...relative population by lines of longitude. Other maps include displays of an actual cartographic "axis...

Online map services like Mapquest can take you to the doorstep of a building, but what do you do if you need navigational help inside a building? A research team at the University of California at Berkeley responded to...

Though I was not a fan of Moe, Larry, Shemp and Curly my young uncles were and I was subjected to many episodes of The Three Stooges television show when I was a kid. I never saw Malice in the Palace but the map is inter...

Doug McCune, who descibes himself as a "data v...  ...a "data visualization engineer", created 3D crime maps for San Francisco. They look like topographical...  ...rancisco. They look like topographical elevation maps because raised portions represent reported crimin...

No, it's not just a weird work of art, but a demonstration by two scientists about how a slime mold can be used to plan road and communications networks efficiently: Physarum polycephalum, a type of slime mold, grows...

English Russia is a marvelous blog filled with...  ...ut "local globes" -- the practice of taking local maps and fitting them around globes so that one locali...

What you're looking at is a compressed image of seven large game worlds, laid over each other to scale. They are: Grand Theft Auto 3Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasThe Elder Scolls 4: OblivionFarcry 2The World of Warc...

Artist Stephen Walter made an enormous, detailed, hand-drawn map of London. It's called "The Island" and is a satire of Londoners' alleged view that their city is independent of the rest of the UK. In an interview abou...

If explorer Amerigo Vespucci were alive, he'd be 5...  ...the rise of the printing press, which made world maps available to more than a few people. Martin Wald...

The British Library has announced that the Klencke Atlas will have its first-ever public showing this summer as part of a map exhibition. It is almost absurdly huge – 1.75 metres (5ft) tall and 1.9 metres (6ft) wide â...