Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

Learn how to use the new globe view in Apple Maps on MacOS Monterey, including how to change the map type and see detailed location information cards.

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

Google is finished thinking two-dimensionally with Maps and now shows the Earth as a globe rather than a flat "Mercator" projection as before. You won't notice the change when you first open the ...

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

Instant Street View brings you an in-the-street close-up look at locations all over the globe. It uses Google Maps' technology to not only show you where the location is on a map but also what it ...

Your view of the world through Google Maps is about to get a little better as a new satellite starts beaming down imagery of our planet. DigitalGlobe, which supplies imagery to Google Maps and ...

Why Would Google Maps Change to a 3D Globe View? Google Maps has always been one to innovate with features like Street View, wheelchair accessible routes, and rainbow roads for Pride Month.

Apple in iOS 15 overhauled the Maps app to add a much more detailed design in select areas, an interactive globe, improved driving directions, better ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat ...

MapCrunch will take you to a new, random part of the world using Google Street View every time you refresh the page.

Most common world maps are highly size distorted, with any land masses located toward the poles tending to look much bigger than they really are, which, in some ways, makes this weird-looking ...