A new feature on Instagram that lets users share their real-time physical location with others on the app has privacy experts concerned over the amount of data exposed and potential safety risks to ...

American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps ...

Instagram's new feature that shows users' current locations is prompting some users to worry if their location will suddenly be shared on the platform. Meta announced the rollout of several new ...

This Columbus day, celebrate the person who really discovered America -- aka, pretty much everyone except Christopher Columbus. By now, it's well known that Indigenous people populated America well ...

Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world. Located near the Welsh border on the River Wye, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 1491 map that likely influenced Christopher Columbus's conception of world geography is getting ...

Location sharing among friends, family, and significant others has quietly become the norm in recent years. Now Instagram is looking for a piece of the action with the launch of a new opt-in map tool ...

In the modern era, the European discovery of North American became a proxy for conflicts between American Protestants and Catholics, as well as northern Europeans who claimed Vikings like Leif ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...

The map, created with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, is the first to display the span of 200,000 galaxies with pinpoint accuracy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...