In brief: Google this week announced the rollout of new visual improvements that'll bring even more detail and granularity to its popular mapping application. It's not a huge change but when you ...

A new book collects rare images from the short-lived golden age of pictorial mapping. Map-making isn’t always serious business. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, many U.S. artists embraced a form of ...

The world’s changed a lot over the last quarter century. In fact, 22 percent of our planet’s livable surface has changed dramatically between the years 1992 and 2015, according to a new study ...