It’s hardly a fail on the scale of Apple Maps – with its farm-labeled-as-an-airport fiasco and other such mishaps – but it will nevertheless be refreshing for some people to learn that Google, widely ...

Cartography is a delicate skill. Making maps requires careful charting of landmasses, rivers, mountains, and all kinds of terrain. Before satellite imagery, this was much more difficult. For instance, ...

Thomas Jefferys, “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies” (London, 1768) (courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the ...

The maps of California as an island come from a new collection of 800 maps recently added to the Stanford Libraries. They were collected by Glen McLaughlin, one of the nation's top map collectors. "To ...

The year is 1973, and a ragtag group of U.S. military officials, scientists, and monster hunters set off on a special mission to map a newly discovered island with a very large secret. That’s the plot ...

The mysterious Sandy Island was mapped for hundreds of years, but it doesn't actually exist THERE’S a “phantom island” that lives as a ghost on Google Maps – and it has experts baffled. The mysterious ...

Over the years, the MTA and earlier transit agencies have both included and omitted Rikers Island from its maps, undecided as to how public or private it really is. We’ve taken screenshots of maps ...

A remote Russian island is covered up on Google maps, and some suggest the black smudge obscures a secret military base A REMOTE Russian island has sparked mystery after users discovered it is blocked ...