Boundaries aren’t just treaties. They’ve been built from rivers, oral history and newspaper notices — and rocks in the way of farmers.
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Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
Counties, local authorities, councils – how you divvy up the map changes the game significantly.
Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.
Maps shape our understanding of world events like the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to make sure they don’t mislead you.
When mapping deprivation, using traditional boundaries can distort the data and distract readers from important information.
We have the Apollo missions to thank for a lot of our geological knowledge about the moon.
In May 2019, Canada made a partial submission to the United Nations on the limits of its extended continental shelf in the Arctic.
Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, maps are a crucial tool.
Maps can show “the big picture” to lots and lots of people in an engaging and colourful way.
Can happiness really be mapped?
Economists try to create and use maps to navigate the world of human choices. But in some ways, these maps are limited.
They are contesting the maps that deny them territorial rights.
Areas of the brain are being mapped, much like the towns, cities and countries represented in a typical atlas.
Nothing is where you think it is.
Google has managed to map most of the world. Recently, the company offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how it’s built the Google Maps application using a combination of technology (the Google Street…
What comes to mind when you think of the Arctic? Ice, I imagine, polar bears, a barren cold landscape. And most would assume that these associations have remained the same for a pretty long time, given…
Matthew Flinders, who died just over 200 years ago, is widely credited with giving this country its name: Australia. Flinders preferred Australia to the more commonly used Terra Australis as he thought…
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