The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

This is Google’s image textured 3D mesh model of the real-world that has been used by Google Earth for over a decade.

These immersive open-world games feature maps derived from and inspired by real locations, offering detailed and interactive experiences.

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

Traditional 2-D maps of Earth are highly distorted, but this award-winning design makes a world of difference.

Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels.

Assassin’s Creed Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt, but its recreation is rooted in real geography. The Nile River, the ...

Pokémon Go and other games that use real-world maps are all the rage, but there's a catch: they typically depend on semi-closed map frameworks that weren't intended for gaming, forcing developers ...