We all know what a winding blue line on a map means, but until we this cartographer’s work we had no idea a little color could transform the world’s rivers into amazing art. A post shared by ...

The world’s changed a lot over the last quarter century. In fact, 22 percent of our planet’s livable surface has changed dramatically between the years 1992 and 2015, according to a new study ...

For our third annual list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places, we turned the cover into an illustrative world map by a London-based mapmaker Katherine Baxter. Baxter spent four weeks producing the ...

Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience. Their survey asks five questions, meant to gauge ...

In a world ruled by GPS and smartphones, one Vermont company is proving there’s still magic in a paper map. Discovery Map, based in the Mad River Valley, creates those colorful illustrated maps you’ve ...