Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) of the University of Seville have published a study of a series of hand-drawn maps that copied the maps printed in the first days of ...

Travis Folk rests the map on his desk. He sits in his chair, his eyes matching his blue gingham shirt and the rubber band stretching across the fingers of his left hand. Blue waves on the map, ...

The Cartography Center of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) started in October of 1941 with hand-drawn maps that plotted the geographic data of World War II. The Center today harnesses more ...

On the East Coast, where people "don't have a good idea of what the rest of the country looks like," it's helpful, in conversation, to have a map. So Glen Lindeke drew one. Now his maps (two, in fact) ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - For the first time, a local historian, Jackson Sibley, presented Shreve Memorial Library - Broadmoor Branch's Genealogy Department with three new iconic maps. These commemorative ...

As high-tech mapping services such as Garmin, Google and MapQuest make finding directions easier than ever, a new movement has revived interest in maps made by hand, as a route toward personal ...

While I normally post about historical maps, the creations of young cartographer Eric Brightwell that come from his studio “Pendersleigh and Sons” give an understanding of the city that goes beyond ...

From the start of the colonization, the Spanish Crown needed to know and represent the overseas territories under its control. In the last third of the sixteenth century, surveys were carried on to ...