As glaciers retreat due to a rise in global temperatures, one study shows that detailed 3D elevation models could drastically ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build interoperable open map data, is offering the general availability of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS)-providing a unique ID for ...

No more politics!” This week’s story is about a conversation between a former Geography teacher, now a real estate agent, who ...

Unique IDs make it easier and cheaper to attach data to geospatial entities, such as buildings, streets, places, etc.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Fraunhofer IAF presents compact integrated quantum sensor at World of Quantum 2025 The highly integrated vector magnetometer ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.

The thing is, cartographers agreed that the Mercator map was outdated, inaccurate, and wasn’t the best way to represent the world’s landmasses. They’d been calling for the use of a new ...