How to use the Geography data type to quickly add a map chart in Excel Your email has been sent Most will agree that a picture is worth a thousand words, and where geographical data is concerned, it’s ...

NEW YORK — Not much is known about how Renaissance cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created his 1516 "Carta marina" world map, possibly the most up-to-date conception of the world at the time. But ...

Back when mapmaking was still a fledgling profession in the U.S., cartographers had a trick up their sleeves: they would insert fake towns into the maps they drew. Not to screw up travelers trying to ...

This is an update of my annual CD post on Nobel Prizes, see last year’s post here. The map above showing Nobel Prizes by regions around the world was inspired by a similar one featured in an October ...