Maps
Gorgeous New Map of the Moon Is Most Detailed to Date
The rendering builds on decades of data that dates back to the Apollo missions, which happened some fifty years ago
Explore the World Virtually With These Rare, Centuries-Old Globes
Visitors can get up close and personal with augmented reality versions of historic globes recently digitized by the British Library
This Interactive Map Visualizes the Queer Geography of 20th-Century America
Mapping the Gay Guides visualizes local queer spaces' evolution between 1965 and 1980
These Newly Digitized Military Maps Explore the World of George III
The last British monarch to reign over the American colonies had a collection of more than 55,000 maps, each with their own story to tell
14th-Century Illustration of Venice Is the Oldest Found Yet
The drawing accompanied one friar's first-person account of a trip from Venice to Jerusalem and Egypt
The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data
How a covert U.S. Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value
The Pioneering Maps of Alexander von Humboldt
Beautiful and insightful, the illustrations of the German naturalist helped shape a new understanding of the world
This Map Shows the Scale of 16th- and 17th-Century Scottish Witch Hunts
The interactive tool tells the stories of 3,141 men and women accused of practicing witchcraft
For Tiffany Chung, Finding Vietnam’s Forgotten Stories Began as a Personal Quest
To map the post-war exodus, the artist turned to interviews and deep research, starting with her own father’s past
These Beautiful Maps Capture the Rivers That Pulse Through Our World
Cartographer Robert Szucs creates colorful maps of the watersheds that creep across states, countries, continents and the globe
This Map Details More Than 200 Massachusetts Sites Connected to African-American History
You can contribute to the project by suggesting new entries or proposing edits to existing ones via the project’s main hub
This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years
The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian period and the present
Drone Captures Thousands of Years of Archaeology on Remote Scottish Islands
A drone survey of Canna and Sanday Islands collected 420 million data points, creating what may be the most detailed 3-D map of islands yet
Easter Island Statues May Have Marked Sources of Fresh Water
A spatial analysis of the island's moai and ahu seem to line up with ancient wells and coastal freshwater seeps
The 'Pole of Inaccessibility' Has Eluded Adventurers for More Than a Century
This winter, explorers will once again set out for the most remote part of the Arctic Ocean
New Law Puts Shetland on the Map—and Outside of a Box
Cartographers had previously been in the habit of representing the Scottish islands inside a box because they are located so far from the mainland
Scientists Can Predict When Birds Will Migrate Up to a Week in Advance
A new forecasting model using years of bird migration data and weather radar could help us protect migrating birds from harm
Citizen Scientists Show Black Widows Creeping North In Canada
Study shows online observations can help researchers refine the range maps of many species overlooked by field biologists
This New Zealand Natural Wonder Is Probably Gone for Good
A new study reconfirms that the Pink and White Terraces were destroyed by a volcano in 1886 and can't be dug up
New Map Chronicles Three Decades of Surface Mining in Central Appalachia
The data shows about 1.5 million acres of forest have been affected by surface and mountaintop mining since the 1970s
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