Map making has been around for as long as there have been explorers. For more accurate maps and the safety of explorers, a coordinate system was first proposed by the Greek astronomer, Hipparchus ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

This Wednesday, Google launched its much-anticipated location-tracking service, Latitude, which uses the GPS hardware found in smart phones (such as Google Android phones and BlackBerry and Windows ...

Identifying the latitude and longitude for a point of interest helps you pinpoint its exact location on the planet using a geographic coordinate system. You can find a point in Google Maps by ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view and is ...