PITTSBURGH—Cindy Brewer seemed to attract a small crowd everywhere she went at a recent cartography conference here. If she sat, students and colleagues milled around, waiting for a chance to talk to ...

From fantasy worlds to sprawling open-world games, maps are more than navigation tools—they’re an art form that shapes how stories unfold. Great map design blends visual beauty, functional clarity, ...

The centuries-old Mercator projection is a notoriously inaccurate world map. For one thing, Greenland isn’t the massive land mass as shown on the map. But a new map by artist and architect Hajime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google has just made a small but significant change to one of its best mobile apps, Google Maps. The company has been tweaking the ...

There's something uniquely satisfying about exploring the intricate 2D spaces of games modeled after Metroid and Castlevania. It's a feeling I don't get from any other games: an acute awareness of how ...

When it comes to navigating unknown territory, the visually-impaired are doubly disadvantaged. Not being able to see the layout of a unfamiliar city or subway system is inherently difficult, but not ...