Mapmaking, or cartography, is a blend of art and science that requires precision and creativity. Cartographers use a variety of tools and techniques to represent the Earth’s surface on paper or ...

All Over The Map: Cartography And Conflict A newly issued Chinese passport featuring a map that lays claim to disputed territory with several neighboring countries is only the latest case of ...

A newly issued Chinese passport featuring a map that lays claim to disputed territory with several neighboring countries is only the latest case of cartographic aggression. From Latin America to ...

From a traditional paper map to the little blue dot on a GPS, the history of the map is put into context in William Rankin’s recently published book “After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the ...

Cartography is just as much an instrument of power as maps themselves, and for the first time in history, it's a tool being freely used by people who may have been ignored, or overlooked for a ...

Historian John L. Kessell knows his subject well. In 2013, the University of Oklahoma released his biography Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico. But at a ...

This genre of cartography is often called "propaganda maps," says Mode, but he prefers the less pejorative label "persuasive cartography." Just because they’re persuasive, he argues, doesn't ...