Google wants its map to have a consistent style, but cities and countries vary in their geographical conventions. How do you balance culture and legibility?

Clear Street (“Clear Street,” “the Company”), a financial technology company on a mission to modernize the brokerage ecosystem, announced today that i ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Without a clear map of the world’s woodsy vegetation, scientists can’t make accurate predictions about, say, how much CO2 would leak into our atmosphere if someone hacked down a given forest ...