The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and ...

Cartography, or map making, has played a critical role in representing spatial concepts for thousands of years. While the earliest forms of maps displayed geographic information carved into clay ...

When divided this way, this half of the globe has an incredible 92.9 percent of the world's population and most of its land. Advertisement The Human Hemisphere is shown in the first map below.

The maps will be notable for another reason, too: If they’re accurate, they’ll signal the arrival of a new, AI-aided age of cartography. In the rich world, reliable population information is ...

At weekly meetings, Cartography Club members participate in games such as logic puzzles, map dating, “Jeopardy!” and GeoGuessr where they test their knowledge of world geography and maps.

Data Points is a new series where we explore the world of data visualization, information graphics, and cartography. Maps. They’ve been around longer than photographs. They’ve defined empires ...

The cartography had been changed a little bit in the era of the Greek where a map of the Roman world created and called “The Old World". It was designed by Claudius Ptolemaus that rule in the ...

In other words, maps are simply a way to visually present a set of data. In that way, cartography, once a highly specialized trade, is now more akin to information design.