Instead, he drew on other projections, such as this one from 1943, centered on the north pole and which drew Eurasia ... cartography, supplying the missing link between the globe and the map.

Maps sold in the United States long showed North America at the center while splitting Eurasia, and the Indian Ocean, between the extreme left and right sides of the page. That makes sense if you ...

His sleuthing takes us inside rare-book rooms, map dealers’ offices, auction houses, cartographic studios, even to the launch of a satellite that will map the world from space. At the epicenter ...

Or, if we have clarified that, which specific algorithm or geolocation mechanism is the map based on?” he wrote in one Facebook post. “This is about the defense and security of our state and our ...

According to National Geographic's long-standing cartographic policy, while a map "strives to be apolitical ... William Pomeranz, an expert on Russia and Eurasia and deputy director of the ...