Those measurements, of course, made for less accurate maps. But since then, our view of the world has sharpened. Here are seven maps that show how far we've come in our understanding of the world.

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

The Mercator map gives us a 16th-century world view because it shows Europe larger, and the colonized countries smaller.

Google Maps gets 3D view of the world Earth view brings depth to Google's mapping service. It needs a browser plug-in for now some day we'll be cruising in 3D in Google's virtual world.

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

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

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 ...

Map of Life is a new Google Maps-based website, which indicates the distribution of almost every species of vertebrate animal in the world.

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map.

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...

The Street View Trekker on a zipline in the Amazon Rainforest. (Photo credit: Google Maps) New imagery of the highest canopy in the Amazon rainforest is now available on Google Maps. The Amazon ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.