The National Geographic Maps division recently began production of its Atlas of the World, tenth edition, due for publication in Fall, 2014. The effort marks the anniversary of the first edition ...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

From charts of UFO sightings in the United States to surveys of bear population density in Finland to a 3-D visualization of where London’s airport employees live, a new collection of maps shows ...

National Geographic cartographers fill a key map gap on the North American Continental Divide and pay tribute to the Father of American Mapmaking A portion of the Trails Illustrated Wind River ...

At this writing (the count is obsolete as soon as it is tallied), National Geographic cartographers have produced 438 supplement maps, ten world atlases, dozens of globes, about 3,000 maps for the ...

The May 1918 issue of National Geographic included an oversized map of the western front, the 400-mile battle line across France and Belgium where much of the fighting in World War I took place.

(See pictures of our melting world in National Geographic magazine.) "You hear reports all the time in the media about this," Valdés said. "Until you have a hard-copy map in your hand, the ...

When looking at a globe instead of a flat map, it makes sense. “That's far and away the shortest way to get there,” Robinson says. None of these geographic misconceptions would be surprising ...

Katherine Parker, cartographic collections manager at the Royal Geographical Society, says that “most new geographic features would debut on one mapmaker’s map. Others would then see it and ...

This island appears on a map by a Virginia-born British loyalist ... Within weeks the National Geographic Society announced that Sandy Island would be stricken from all of its maps, and other ...

"This is an atlas at heart and National Geographic came to me to help dream ... digestible in bits and pieces," he said. "We wanted the maps to be relatable. These are destinations.