From historic homes in Edinburgh to towering skyscrapers in Shanghai, you can now explore every building in the world from ...

A fascinating new colour map of the world's river systems has revealed the flowing arteries of the planet as never seen before. The guide, created by analyst Robert Szucs, shows every river basin on ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

The world map is a familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but you might be surprised to learn that it’s not an accurate representation of the Earth. In fact, in terms of country and ...

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

The revolutionary map may look unfamiliar but it solves a centuries-old problem THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ...

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem – how to turn the three-dimensional sphere of the Earth into a flat, two-dimensional image. In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Stephanie Harris writes on Game Rant about Film, TV, and Video Games. She's am experienced content writer who always has a show on the go. Open-world games use geographic technology for stunning, ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

While there’s an argument to be made that bigger isn’t always better, today we’re mostly concerned with just getting into the biggest of the big. Open world maps, that is. Whether you’re zipping ...