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 ...

With the world's population projected to swell to 11 billion by 2100, one might wonder if there's enough room on the planet for so many human beings.The answer, according to a new map, is yes, at ...

When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer. “I didn’t include the Dead Sea. It’s ...

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 ...

Cartography is usually about precision, geography, and helping people not get lost. But over on the Terrible Maps Twitter page, it’s more about chaos, confusion, and comedy gold. This post ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.