Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species?

The total area of the planet that is covered in coral reefs is larger than previously thought, according to the most comprehensive high-resolution assessment of the world’s corals to date. Shallow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Mercator map, created ...