Author Simon Garfield loves maps. His home in London is full of them — that's where they're stocked, hanging on walls and piled on shelves. So when Garfield was looking for a new topic to write about, ...

Forget cartography: Maps also serve humanistic inquiry. When I can't coax students to participate, I'll pull up a map and marvel at their volubility. In fact, I often use Saul Steinberg's famous New ...

Educators and researchers are using antique and historical maps to reveal how places have changed and to make history lessons more engaging. From digitizing detailed fire insurance atlases to ...

Historic maps, records, and cultural site data are being digitized across major U.S. institutions, making centuries of history accessible at the click of a button. From the Library of Congress to the ...

The terms “big data” and “massive data analytics” likely conjure thoughts of the modern world, of hundreds of millions of tweets or billions of Facebook posts streaming in real time into gleaming data ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, GPS has been a game changer - a tap, a voice, a turn-by-turn path, will get you there. But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or ...