There are many, many maps of New York City. There are the decor maps, sold on Amazon, and the tourist maps, which focus, erroneously, only on Manhattan. There’s the iconic subway map, as well as the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Some neighborhoods were designed in a way that makes them more sweltering than others. Maps of 44 cities in the ...

New York City voters will decide this November whether to update the city’s 70-year-old map system and streamline housing development. A digitized map is a ballot measure this year, Proposition 5, and ...

Archie Archambault was a philosophy major who moved to Portland, Ore., in 2009 after college and found himself getting lost. For all their practical uses, Google maps didn’t seem to really give him a ...

Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world ...

The following map comes from the David Rumsey Map Collection. We recently asked David Rumsey, a map expert who has been collecting maps since the 1980s, to describe the nature of the map to us. His ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...