Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) of the University of Seville have published a study of a series of hand-drawn maps that copied the maps printed in the first days of ...

From the start of the colonization, the Spanish Crown needed to know and represent the overseas territories under its control. In the last third of the sixteenth century, surveys were carried on to ...

The page from an encyclopedia shows an ocean ring around a circle that is partitioned by a T-shape into three continents — Asia, Africa and Europe. The continents are populated by Noah’s sons, from ...

Finding your way around an unfamiliarbuilding can be tricky for anyone, but its far more difficult forpeople with visual impairments. A pair of researchers at Rutgers University School of ...

The growth in use of smartphones, navigational units and other GPS technology, and the pursuit of government efficiency likely will result in fewer Iowa roads maps. The Iowa House voted Tuesday to ...

Most motorists still prefer printed maps to sat navs when planning car journeys, a survey found. Older drivers are the least happy with satellite navigation systems, with only 9 per cent of over-65s ...