For millennia, maps have held talismanic powers, helping to form spatial concepts and advance exploration. They have shaped geopolitical ideas, triggered international disputes and created pictures of ...

This year at theOpen Source Geospatial Foundation‘s annual meeting, mappers from around the world have entered their work in a contest. A panel of map experts will select the winners in the categories ...

Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor ...

In his day job as staff cartographer at UC Berkeley, Darin Jensen makes maps for other people. When professors need a map for teaching a class or submitting a research paper to a journal, he's their ...

The latest issue of Humboldt Geographic gathers a decade of maps and stories from Cal Poly Humboldt cartography students, inviting readers to see maps not only as navigational tools but as narrative ...

In last week’s design journal, Character Roles & Skill Advancement we talked broadly about the four different character roles, the different skill trees - including the Survival and Bardic trees, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In an age of sophisticated satellite mapping — hey, that’s my car in the driveway taken from 12,000 miles up! — there are still cartography fans who love the ...