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Cartography

The First Map of America

Arts, Culture & Media

The Library of Congress recently bought the only surviving copy of Martin Waldseemller’s 1507 map of America for ten million dollars. Producer Andrea Murray talks to the map’s conservators, who are piecing together what the map meant to 16th-century Europeans.

A woman and a child, returning from a temple, walk past damaged and collapsed houses following the April 25, 2015, earthquake in Nepal.

How maps are saving lives as Nepal recovers from its earthquake

Technology
A Google Maps image of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Franciso.

Want to know if the mall is crowded? That’s just one of the promises of future maps

Technology
Ebola map

This nonprofit group is trying to make the world more equal — through mapping

Development

It’s Time to Stop Blaming the Maps

Arts, Culture & Media

Welsh Band Pays Tribute to Samoa for Jumping the International Dateline

Global Hit

When Samoa jumped over the international dateline at the end of 2011, Howl Griff wrote a song about it. At the stroke of midnight of this year, a Samoa radio station played it, thus making the song “International Dateline” the first song played in 2013.

The World

An Island that Isn’t All There

Geo Quiz

We’re looking for the name of the sea that lies between Australia and New Caledonia…

The Art of American Cartography

A prize-winning map unfolds the story of the United States in stunning detail and the poetry of Walt Whitman celebrates America and its range of varied voices.

The World

Underwater Volcano in Spain

Environment

The Geo Quiz visits the southern-most of the Canary Islands where an underwater volcano is currently erupting 3 miles offshore.

The World

Times Atlas erroneously depicts Greenland land erosion

Environment

A single map inside the latest edition of the well-respected “Times Atlas of the World” has caused friction between the cartography world and the scientific community. We’re speaking with Jeff Kargel, glaciologist at the University of Arizona.