Atlas Guo is a cartographer and Ph.D. student. We met with him to learn more about mapping natural disasters and what goes into making a well-designed map.

As part of its ReUrbanism initiative, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has produced interactive maps which chart the age and character of cities across the United States. The Atlas of ...

MURDER MAPS USA Crime Scenes Revisited; Bloodstains to Ballistics, 1865-1939 By Adam Selzer Illustrated. 224 pp. Thames & Hudson. $35. Image Like last year’s “Murder Maps: Crime Scenes ...

The maps connected us to the places. Fewer of us use maps like that today. We gaze at our phones, pinching and stretching an image but seeing the world through a little rectangular window.

On most Atlas maps of the United States, geographic landmarks have a standardized appearance. Mountain ranges show up as shaded topographies, lakes as blobs of blue, rivers as thin snaking ...

In Google Maps in the United States, the sea is designated as the Sea of Japan (East Sea). A similar naming procedure is set to be used for the Gulf of Mexico in regions outside the United States.